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TIL That there were still Mammoths alive on Earth as late as 2000 BC. The same time as the Pyramids were being built.

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WPnd TIL according to Timothy Leary, Mary Pinchot Meyer, who was romantically linked to JFK, took part in a plan to avert worldwide nuclear war by convincing powerful male members of the Washington establishment to take LSD, which would presumably lead them to conclude that the Cold War was meaningless
nWNX9 TIL that in 1861, the mayor of New York City sought to avoid the economic repercussions of the upcoming Civil War by seceding from the Union. He wanted to call the resulting entity "the Free City of Tri-Insula".
5kgk TIL: In NYC in 1987 the number of people bitten by squirrels: 95. The number of people bitten by other people in NYC that year: 1600.
BA8W TIL: The child lead of the 1986 film Flight of the Navigator is a convicted bank robber
PYEYZ TIL Is possible to make a battery that will last centuries using nuclear waste and artificial diamonds.