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TIL the World Wide Web is 7777 days old today.

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YpG0r TIL the 21st century didn't begin on January 1st 2000. It began later on January 1st 2001. This is because the first year of a century is the year 01, never 00.
Ae8x TIL that 60-70% of all the deforestation in the Amazon is due to clearing land for cattle ranching
D1eMV TIL the largest surviving relative of the Tyrannosaurus is the common Ostrich.
nRjB TIL that fans were so fanatical about ‘Star Trek’ that they made Gene Roddenberry nervous. The TV show’s creator said “It frightens me when I learn of 10,000 people treating a Star Trek script as if it were Scripture. I certainly didn’t write Scripture”