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TIL Sharks existed before trees

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VBwoG TIL that In 1985 the Swiss Army fired off shells during an exercise and mistakenly burned a patch of forest inside Liechtenstein. The incident was said to have been resolved "over a case of white wine".
nYEd TIL there’s a counterargument to the use of Occam’s razor in the medical profession called Hickam’s dictum. It states that “patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please.”
ZpAYB TIL that there was a two-hour-long animated LOTR film that followed the story of The Fellowship of the Ring, and it came out over two decades before Peter Jackson's live-action adaptation.
1aold TIL there's an unofficial language called Portunol (Portugese/Espanol) which is a slang Spanish-Portuguese hybrid. Spanish fans at Brazil's world cup would speak it to work through the language barrier. Brazilians apparently found it extremely offensive.
DB8v TIL in Iceland they have an app to detect whether or not your date is a relative, due to having a small population.