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TIL According to an Old English time unit, one moment was 1.5 minutes.

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1amQd TIL in 1921 a Danish geologist discovered a tiny island on the northern coast of Greenland and named it "Kaffeklubben Island" after an informal academic club held at the Copenhagen Mineralogical Museum. He didn't know that he had just named the northernmost point of land on Earth after a coffee club
v1bkr TIL that in 2018, an 18-year-old memorized the order of a shuffled deck of 52 cards in 12.74 seconds.
mxmrR TIL every time an armadillo gives birth, they have identical quadruplets.
rRpxo TIL a group of young male elephants were rejected by the local females at a new reserve. The young males then accidentally killed 17 rhinos by trying to have sex with them. When parents were brought in this stopped immediately.
EgoXo TIL that Tommy Maddox left the NFL after five unsuccessful years as a QB, and became an insurance agent. Two years later, an arena football team asked him to play. Maddox sold his agency and accepted the offer. He eventually returned to the NFL and helped the Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl XL.