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TIL Dr. Dre made almost $20 per second in 2014

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QJJNa TIL that society collapsed on Easter Island largely due to deforestation. One of the main reasons for this was that the trees were logged to move the giant Moai figures into position.
J1jKv TIL: Lemons are not a naturally occurring fruit. They were created in SE Asia by crossing a citron with a bitter orange around 4000 years ago. They were spread around the world after found to prevent scurvy. Life didn’t give us lemons.. We made them ourselves.
xVwM1 TIL About the Cardiff Tower. Hidden in plain sight in a largely Jewish community just south of Beverly Hills, exists a working oil derrick, disguised to look like a Synagogue.
awab0 TIL about the solar storm of 2012, where a wave of charged plasma particles ejected from the sun narrowly missed Earth. Had it hit, the geomagnetic disturbance would have caused global damage to electronic systems with costs estimated in the trillions
ljQN TIL there was once a Viking king who ruled as the King of England…for about 5 weeks.