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TIL that the ozone layer is healing and a full recovery is expected by year 2050-2060

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wLPmE TIL Woody Harrelson's First Wife Was Intended to Be A Joke and they would divorce the next day. The storefront marriage/divorce parlor was closed So They Stayed Married For 10 Months
jZYM TIL that there is a malicious zip file on the internet that is only 42 kilobytes when compressed, but 4.5 petabytes when unzipped (that’s 4500 terabytes or 4,500,000 gigabytes!)
bv7 TIL that there exists a type of contact lens that you wear while sleeping and take off when you wake up; these lenses will restore your eyesight back to perfect while you sleep
8nBb TIL on January 1, 1907 Theodore Roosevelt shook the hands of 8,510 people, setting a world record he held for over 70 years.
JBAv TIL that when Tolkien read The Lord of the Rings to his group of literary minds, the Inklings, Hugo Dyson, who was not keen on the work, rolled on the sofa shouting “Oh fuck, not another elf!”