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

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xVY15 TIL many Chinese medical tourists who go to South Korea for inexpensive and high quality plastic surgery have difficulty re-entering China due to their passports photos not matching their new face post op.
kJaVg TIL that Prime Minister Harold Holt, the Prime Minister who most likely drowned at sea in 1967, is commemorated by the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Iris.
R58W1 TIL Van Morrison’s song “Brown Eyed Girl” was originally titled “Brown Skinned Girl”, but was changed to make it more palatable to radio stations at the time. It still got banned on some stations because the lyrics included the line “Making love in the green grass”
jNnGR TIL about the moon landing’s ‘Human Computers’. Who were a group of women, who held math and science degrees, and were responsible for managing the moon landing’s incredibly complex calculations. They also did it real-time, by written hand, and were faster than any technology available before 1970.
nebBY TIL that "Weird Al" Yankovic has had the same core band for 38 years | He began working with percussionist Jon Schwartz 41 years ago; guitarist Jim West and bassist Steve Jay have been with him since 1983.