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TIL The world is running out of usable sand

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epnD4 TIL that the first flight attendant in the world, Heinrich Kubis, started working as a waiter on a zeppelin in 1912, was on board during the Hindenburg disaster, and survived.
LQgXp TIL that the neurologist who invented lobotomy (António Egas Moniz) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for this highly invasive procedure, which is widely considered today to be one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine.
xV8XB TIL After a composer released a song that was just 60 seconds of silence, he was sued by the estate of a man who had released a similar track, called 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. His defense was, "I have been able to say in one minute what he could only say in four minutes and 33 seconds"
4X5oR TIL: A recent study of dinosaur eggshells supports the idea that dinosaurs may have been warm blooded
awPvM TIL of the megatherium, which was a huge prehistoric sloth, which could measure up to 6m in length and weigh up to 4000kg.