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TIL the direction of Earth’s magnetic field reverses every 200,000 - 300,000 years

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4XlYR TIL On June 7th, 1692 the pirate city, Port Royal, in Jamaica was rocked by a massive earthquake that shook the city into the ocean, leaving 2,000 souls burried under sand and brick. Shortly after the quake, a tsunami flooded what was left.
N7yJE TIL that the 17th century Ethiopian philosopher Zera Yacub espoused ideas about secularism, rationalist thought and gender equality almost a century before the philosophers of the enlightenment
x6Xab TIL The Catholic Church reclassified beavers as fish so Catholics could eat them during Lent. They also reclassified capybaras for dietary purposes.
6ElnY TIL that during the women’s gymnastics all-around final at the 2000 Olympics, the vaulting table was accidentally set 5 centimeters too low. Half of the gymnasts had vaulted before organizers fixed the error, and many of them had crashes.
awPVA TIL that British lawyers, judges, and some roles of parliament still wear old-timey white wigs