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TIL that the Sahara Desert ( known for being the world’s hottest desert) used to be a tropical rainforest about 6,000 years ago.

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KOGYR TIL in 1997 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, a pot-bellied pig named Lulu saved her owner, having a heart attack. Lulu heard the owner's cries of pain then forced her way out of the yard and played dead on the road. Lulu successfully stopped a car and guided help to the owner, she survived.
yQQOp TIL after a reviewer commented about a "Billy Joel Rock Band" referenced in an episode of The Office by saying "let's hope [it] never actually exists ever", Billy Joel read the review and told his people "Get me on that Rock Band game".
1EGD TIL that when Einstein arrived in Paris by train in 1922,many high profile reporters, diplomats were waiting for him on the platform. Instead, he sneaked out the back car and off down the tracks, laughing “like a child”.
6EX6W TIL that Comcast (NBC Universal) owns 70% of Rotten Tomatoes and Warner Bros the remaining 30%
R5p64 TIL that the Eiffel Tower in Paris was originally intended to be a temporary exhibit built to celebrate the 1889 world’s fair and was almost torn down and scrapped in 1909.