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TIL The Chicxulub asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago is theorized to have generated a megatsunami that reached 2.9 miles (4.6 km or 15,312 ft.) in height or more than 5.5x the height of the Burj Khalifa (2,722 ft.) out in the open ocean.

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wBVE TIL Two privacy researchers from the University of Texas were able to unmask Netflix users’ political and sexual orientation by taking the “anonymized” movie ratings (released as part of Netflix Prize) and comparing them against non-anonymized movie ratings posted at IMDB.
Z8YLG TIL: Woolly Mammoths were still alive by the time the pyramids at Giza were completed. The last woolly mammoths died out on Wrangel Island, north of Russia, only 4000 years ago, leaving several centuries where the pyramids and mammoths existed at the same time.
R7voQ TIL that since the 13th century, the German Princely House of Reuss has named all its male children Heinrich, who are identified by a number. Numbers are assigned in birth order and roll over each century: the current patriarch is Heinrich XIV, whose two sons are named Heinrich XXIX and Heinrich V
QJ5vd TIL A 2017 study on censorship in Kidz Bop found that replacing words and phrases in songs does not disassociate the original in the minds of young listeners who have heard the uncensored song.
d8098 TIL of Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California. When the gun failed, she turned to the Secret Service and said, "It didn't go off. Can you believe it?"