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TIL: Narnia is/was a real place in the Roman Empire

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rNVV0 TIL Gamma-ray bursts release more energy in 10 seconds than our Sun in its entire life.
4YZX TIL Since the dawn of civilization, roughly 12,000 B.C., to 2003 A.D., only 5 exabytes (5,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of data has been created. Now, with the rise of the Internet’s influence in our daily lives, we produce this amount of data every two days.
P1QnO TIL that people paint penises outside houses and buildings in Bhutan to ward off evil and good luck.
W7gGo TIL the term "Siamese twins" comes from the twin conjoined brothers Chang and Eng Bunker who were born in Siam, now Thailand. When they first arrived in England to become circus exhibits, they were called “The Siamese Twins.”
5V749 TIL of Sir Anthony Meyer, a Conservative MP who challenged Margaret Thatcher for the leadership. Dismissed as having no chance by the media, his challenge ultimately brought Thatcher down from power, as it showed how many of her own party had grown tired of her.