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TIL that sharks are older than trees. “Modern” trees lived around 350 million years ago while sharks have existed for 400 million years

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VMyw0 TIL scientists have discovered an exoplanet that resides within its star's habitable zone, has a temperate climate and contains water at its surface. However, even with spacecrafts much faster than our current ones, it would take a crew of 98 members 6,300 years to reach the Earth-like exoplanet.
QJKBX TIL Elle King, the singer of ‘Ex’s & Oh’s’ is the daughter of acclaimed comedian Rob Schneider.
yVGle TIL Abraham Lincoln had already seen the play “Our American Cousin” and did not like it. He went at the insistence of his wife stating, "All right, Mary, I'll go; but if I don't go down in history as the martyr President, I miss my guess."
dpL9 TIL that Einstein and his wife once visited the enormous Mount Wilson Observatory with astronomer Edwin Hubble. When told that Hubble’s telescopes were revealing the ultimate shape of the universe, Einstein’s wife nonchalantly responded, “Well, my husband does that on the back of an old envelope.”
dLO7 TIL that mushrooms can create a slight breeze even when the air is calm. They release water vapour, cooling the air and creating a convective current that gets the air moving, carrying spores away from the parent.