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TIL that sand is a finite resource and we are running out.

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e9og TIL The Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus once hit his head on set and was rushed to the hospital for stitches via ambulance. Being driven the way back by set staff - still under the influence of medication - he encountered a flipped 18-wheeler and pulled the unconscious driver out into safety.
ZpER4 TIL that for a brief period in 1919, the steamship "Saratov" was the last outpost controlled by the Latvian government, as the entire land area of Latvia was held either by the Germans or the Red Army
GA9J4 TIL North Korea ordered and took delivery of 1,000 Volvos ftom Sweden. They never paid for them.
6RBZ TIL that the first female governor of Texas was elected in 1924. She said “she would follow the advice of her husband” and voters would get “two governors for the price of one.”
EgWW7 TIL evolution isn’t always slow and continuous—sometimes it happens in rapid bursts (Punctuated Equilibrium), which explains why fossils often lack smooth transitions.