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TIL that we are living in the 6th Extinction Event and that humans are credited with causing it.

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NyLe TIL Tanks from WW1 were originally to be called Landships but the factory workers who were building them referred to them as Tanks because they resembled steel water tanks and the British concerned with secrecy kept that name.
wojwM TIL about 2,000 to 3,000 luxury cars are abandoned in Dubai every year
mxbeo TIL There is a street sign stylized using letters, with their Scrabble values as a subscript in Jackson Heights, NY where the game was created.
gM6EA TIL that Adam Steltzner, chief engineer of NASA's Mars 2020 project, was a music college dropout who failed high school geometry. He took his first physics class in a local community college only because it was a prerequisite for another class.
9kWm TIL in the 17th century in the Netherlands, there was a tulip flower bubble that allowed tulip traders to earn the equivalent of almost $62,000 USD a month.