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TIL Saturn’s rings are younger than the dinosaurs as they were likely formed just 100 million years ago.

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X0GR TIL that nearly the entire student body and faculty of Ole Miss joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and suffered a 100% casualty rate.
p8lKp TIL in 1992, on average, a bank in Los Angeles was robbed every 45 minutes. Between 1985 and 1995 the ~3,500 retail bank branches in LA were robbed 17,106 times. In 1992 alone, there were 2,641 heists.
DPOp TIL that Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower, after serving two terms as President of the United States, sought and received his reinstatement as a General of the Army. Ike believed that history would hardly remember his service as President, but would never forget that he commanded the D-day invasion.
gOJX TIL That the U.S. Department of Education does not allow schools to spend money on D.A.R.E. because the program has been found to be ineffective in reducing alcohol and drug use.
ogw7 TIL the reason why champagne can legally be produced in California is due to the fact that the US Senate never ratified The Treaty of Versailles