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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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a8jWZ TIL that the average 18th-century French worker spent half his daily wage on bread.
Wkn8Y TIL that in South Dakota people are allowed to pull over and shoot animals from the roadside, even if they have to aim over the road itself.
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