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TIL that miners in Mexico discovered a cavern deep underground filled with gypsum crystals up to 11m long

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d8Oa8 TIL that the first Polish encyclopaedia included such definitions as "Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is", and "Dragon: Dragon is hard to overcome, yet one shall try."
d8No8 TIL two men paid €1.5 million in counterfeit money for a painting, only to find out that the painting was fake.
1dMV TIL : There is a short German rhyme about procrastination that also rhymes when translated to English. “Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen leute.” in English means “Later, later, not today, all the lazy people say.”
Y7MQW TIL that “under the weather,” meaning, feeling ill, is from sailors. On the high seas when the wind blow hard and rough water crewmen would go below deck and down to their cabins in order to ride out the storm to avoid seasickness. They literally retreat to a location “under the weather"
AjQ4 TIL Raptors have been shown to start wildfires to drive their prey out into the open.