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TIL Antarctica once had Trees.

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M77K0 TIL that when Loki calls Black Widow "mewling quim", this is the most offensive line in the film, as he is essentially calling her a whining cunt.
78J4O TIL the first recorded strike in history happened in 1158BC in Ancient Egypt, the strikers demanded wheat rations, which was granted after a march to the office of the Vizier.
NEaJ TIL there’s a real, working turret that fires 1,000,000 rounds per minute (or 16,666 bullets per second; a bullet every 0,002 seconds)
JY0Rk TIL Stephen Hawking did his own dialogue when he appeared on The Simpsons and he especially had problems with the word 'Fruitopia'. Hawking later expressed dissatisfaction with the appearance because he felt more people knew him for The Simpsons than for his work.
x6Awo TIL that a dentist named Edgar Parker legally changed his first name to "Painless", when he was accused of breaking a false advertisement law by claiming that his dentistry was truly painless.