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TIL About the Permian extol event that killed off 95% of all life on earth which eventually lead to the rise of the dinosaurs.

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newRG TIL of Randy Gardner, a 17 year-old high school student from San Diego who set the record for the longest time a human has gone without sleep (11 days, 25 min). Gardner's experimental analysis found paranoia, hallucinations, loss of concentration, and being unable to count backwards from 100.
V4eG TIL a Soviet all-female aviation regiment nicknamed the “night witches” would fly thousands of feet up, cut their engines and drop almost to the ground to bomb German forces undetected.
Y7LGP TIL: On Malta, singers debate local politics and social issues in improvised song duels that are as much about knowing the issue as being able to spout witty poetry.
rNNdd TIL that the Pioneer 10 space probe passed the orbit of Neptune, the furthest planet away from the Sun at the time, on June 13, 1983. It was the first man-made object to leave the Solar System.
BgaNy TIL: Uranium was named after Uranus, which had only recently been discovered.