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TIL a California paleontologist created an interactive map to show users where their location was between present day and 750 million years ago

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M7B8W TIL in WW1, ten Vickers machine guns fired over one million rounds in a 12-hour period to provide sustained covering fire. To cool the guns, they used all the water in the neighbourhood, including drinking water and the contents of latrine buckets.
8aoQX TILabout an astronomer who in 1986been tryin to trace a 75 cent computer time discrepancy for 10 months found a German hacker selling defense secrets to the KGB!
N7GJe TIL A tourist in Iceland was arrested when some local girls told him that it was tradition to run around naked on the Prime Minister's lawn.
nYLP TIL that nonviolent protests are more successful than violent ones.
gMayA Around 1 million people in Ireland—as well as 20,000 people in the United States—can speak Irish. It’s an ancient and unfamiliar-looking language in the Celtic group, making it a linguistic cousin of other ancient languages like Welsh, Scots, Manx, and Breton. To English speakers though, it’s a tough language to master. It has a relatively complex grammar that sees words inflected in an array of different contexts ignored in English. It uses a different word order from English that places the verb, rather than the subject, at the head of the clause. And it uses an alphabet traditionally comprising just 18 letters, so words are often pronounced completely differently from what an English speaker might expect.