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TIL Earth is currently going through an Ice Age, which started 3 million years ago, however, 11,000 we entered a warm inter-glacial cycle.

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Gdp1 TIL that Scientology head David Miscavige is 5'1" tall (1.55m), which makes him even shorter than Tom Cruise.
MegZa TIL: Ben Affleck was banned for life from the Hard Rock hotel and casino in 2014 for counting cards at the blackjack table.
8a9OZ TIL George Washington “understood very clearly that everything he did as the first president of the United States would be watched by nations abroad and by people at home, and would set a precedent.” According to historians, Washington’s “finest moment” was leaving after two terms
nWlD7 TIL a high school student, Johanna Mankiewicz, wrote Albert Einstein for his help on a geometry problem. In order not to divulge the entire solution, Einstein’s response only added to her confusion, resulting in a newspaper headline, “Einstein flunks out as geometry teacher.”
6WW7 TIL that a man lived one year following the rules of the bible literally, in part out of concern with the rise of religious fundamentalism.