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TIL woolly mammoths were still alive while the Great Pyramids were being built.

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a7PN TIL Volvo invented the three point seatbelt and it gave free license to all other auto manufacturers to use it.
lPaA TIL there is a place in Africa (Afar Triangle) where giant gaping cracks will randomly and suddenly form that shoot out blasts of superheated air at 750 degrees Fahrenheit.
b6M4E TIL that Tea clipper Cutty Sark is named after a character of the poem: Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns. Where the witch, Nannie wears a cutty sark (short nightgown).
4kDBg TIL of the 2006 Dreamspace V Incident. A giant inflatable art piece by Maurice Agis that you could walk around in, it would later fly into the air following a wind gust killing 2 and trapping 20-30 others.
WJEY TIL Ronnie Gibbs, a 15 year old girl with a drug problem, was sentenced to (and is serving) life in prison without parole for having a miscarriage after trying to get clean