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TIL that COLLABORATIONISM does not carry the same positive connotation as its root word. It instead refers to the carrying out an act of treason; most commonly applicable to WW-II

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mxJPP TIL around 2.5 billion years ago, the Oxygen Catastrophe occurred, where the first microbes producing oxygen using photosynthesis created so much free oxygen that it wiped out most organisms on the planet because they were used to living in minimal oxygenated conditions
m1r5y TIL Stephen Hawking left behind £16.3 Million (around $20 Million) in his last will and testament, and £10 Thousand to his long-time personal assistant. Hawkings Archive and his personal office contents passed into public ownership using methods that saved his estate £4.2 Million of inheritance tax
wLgLE TIL in 2007 there was a pet food recall on imported pet food from China that killed more than 8,500 pets. Congress enacted laws for the FDA to set new guidelines within 2 years. In 2016 the FDA reported they're still "drafting a regulation" and in 2018 Congress removed the guidelines for pet safety.
J1PO4 TIL: Robin Williams had a requirement that for every single event or film he did, the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them to work. This under the radar, no publicity requirement helped countless homeless people find work.
jG0R TIL that two of the world’s largest rivers, the Amazon and the Rio Negro, meet but do not mix and are visually distinct but occupy the same body of water. This is due to the rivers’ different speeds and temperatures.