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TIL that earth has had 5 mass extinctions, and we are currently in the 6th.

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pY5NZ TIL Martial Art Master Bruce Lee was born in the USA and died in Hong Kong.
9YxJD TIL about Captain Midnight, a Florida man who hijacked HBO’s satellite to protest their high prices.
Br4pD TIL that both the penny and the nickel cost more to make than they're worth, and that up to 1982 the metal in a penny was worth more than the penny itself.
bdVa TIL that NBA player Shaquille O'Neal starred in ‘Kazaam’ (1996) because “I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, 'Hey, here’s $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.’ What am I going to say, no? So I did it.”
l7BvV TIL about the Panic of 1837, a major financial depression in the U.S. that lasted until the mid-1840s. Nearly half of all banks failed, businesses closed, prices declined, and there was mass unemployment. The economy recovered by 1850 due to the California Gold Rush.