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TIL when dinosaurs roamed Earth, there were active volcanoes on the moon

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nej4Y TIL - An 8th grader tried to pay for her lunch with a 2 Dollar Bill that had been given to her by her grandmother. The police were called because the school thought it was fake, and investigated where the bill had been obtained. In the end, the bill was real.
XE1pk TIL Nauru, a tiny Polynesian nation, was once among the richest nations per capita in the world. They are currently among the poorest after depleting their natural resources and blowing their wealth on a failed Broadway musical.
6k8J TIL in 1775, about 70 years after the last Dodo’s death, the director of Oxford’s Natural History museum decided the museum’s stuffed Dodo was becoming too tattered and ordered it burned. A passing employee noticed and rescued a head and a limb. This is the last remainder of an actual dodo we have.
E1V67 TIL that Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, was portrayed in the 2019 alternate history series ‘For all Mankind’ as the first person to walk on the moon
wEmW TIL that Carrie Fisher was addicted to Cocaine during the filming of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and also survived an overdose