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TIL that If you could hold your mother’s hand and she could hold her mother’s hand and so on and so forth, all standing in a straight line, the point where we have a common ancestor with chimpanzees would be only 300 miles away.

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woMK1 TIL there is a term for phobia of other people’s opinion of you. It’s called Allodoxaphobia and it can be treated through therapy
mxVgp TIL RCA spent 17 years trying to find a way to put movies on vinyl records. In 1981 they finally achieved this, marketing the SelectaVision system. Unfortunately by the time they finished researching the system, someone had invented the VHS video tape.
gMOLD TIL In 1996, Taco Bell duped people when it announced it had agreed to purchase Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell
VMro0 TIL That termite queens are the longest living insect on the planet. Living on average up to 15 years with some scientists suggesting they can live up to 50-100 years old.
apBL TIL American forces leveled much of the ancient city of Babylon during the Iraq war in order to build helipads and heavy vehicle parking lots.