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TIL that sharks existed before trees. Sharks have been around for more than 400 million years, while the first trees appeared around 350 million years ago.

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e0x1J TIL about Alfred Russel Wallace, a young Welsh explorer who spent 4 years in Brazil, nearly blind after his glasses broke. While returning home the ship caught fire, destroying all his findings. He then went to Malaysia, collecting 127,000 specimens. In 1858 he conceived his own theory of evolution.
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