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TIL if Earth’s history was represented by 24 hours, the dinosaurs would have become extinct at 11:41pm and human history would have begun at 11:54:43pm.

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8YJ8 TIL of Christian Heinreich Heineken, a child prodigy who by at the age of one, read the Pentateuch, and by the age of four wrote the “History of Denmark” and recited it when visiting the King of Denmark later the same year.
e9n TIL In 1998 Venus and Serena Williams said they could beat any man ranked 200 or worse; both lost handedly to a man ranked #203, who smoked between the matches.
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Xbr TIL as a young girl Jeanne Calment, confirmed to have live longer than anyone else in history (and whom died in 1997), met Vincent Van Gogh and remembering him as “Dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable”.