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TIL Hawaii was formed after the dinosaurs had been extinct for 50 million years.

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Ny0M TIL Ernest Hemingway once out drank 14 Chinese army officers. “Slowly officers grew scarlet in the face and slid beneath the table; others went green-white and fell as if shot,”…Hemingway, by contrast, “was planted on his feet like Atlas.”
6E1b7 TIL that in Marvel comics, The Beatles are actually a group of rogue skrulls who came to Earth to invade it but decided that the money and power was better.
R71P9 TIL of Mockbusters, ripoffs of Blockbusters including the 1998 "Secret of Mulan" which ripped off Mulan and A Bugs Life, where all the characters were bugs.
M74nA TIL that Valentines day is the day that Saint Valentine was beheaded for supporting soldiers getting married.
Brd7k TIL that 65% of Brits admitted to falsely claiming to having read a classic book in order to impress someone with 1984 being the most popular with 42% of respondents having lied about reading it.