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TIL That the dinosaurs far pre-date Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and most famous stars in the night sky. In fact the star was born around the same time as pre-humans walked the Earth

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0waDN TIL A medieval French soldier climbed up a toilet into a besieged castle to let his army in. King John of England had specifically requested that toilet be installed for personal use during church services. The castle’s fall led to English loss of Normandy and the signing of the Magna Carta.
xkrD TIL that more Colombians die every year from American tobacco than Americans die from Colombian cocaine
bB19 TIL that in 1792 criminals saw they could make a good profit by filing shavings from the sides of gold and silver coins and selling the precious metal, which is why coins now have ridges on their sides.
Y7g9W TIL Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.
9Y9m7 TIL that "aloneliness" is the opposite of loneliness, and it's the distress we feel when we don't get enough time alone.