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TIL horse-sized ducks lived in Australia 50,000 to 20,000 years ago

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mxgYP TIL about the MS Achille Lauro. The Italian cruise ship, launched in 1947, crashed into other ships twice, caught fire four times, and was hijacked in 1985. It eventually sank in the Indian Ocean in 1994.
5yjP TIL that in 2013 alone more than 1,000 park rangers died trying to save African elephants from poachers.
ADdgg 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.
NERN TIL Superman II was filmed simultaneously along with the original in 1977. Due to cost overruns and dysfunction on the set, filming on the sequel was halted only 75% completed, and the ending to Superman I changed. The filmmakers decided that if Superman I was a hit, they’d finish Superman II.
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