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TIL There's a supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park that would release ash so dense; it would block the sun and send the world into another Ice Age if it were to erupt

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Mew17 TIL Producer George "Shadow" Morton wrote the song "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" in his car in one night, only to prove to fellow producer Jeff Barry that he was indeed a "song-writer". The song, played by The Shangri-Las, went on to become #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100
XEp4E TIL one of the moon rocks brought back to Earth from the Apollo 14 mission, was actually a rock formed on Earth 4 billion years ago, making it Earth's oldest rock.
brL4 TIL that in Weird Al Yankovic’s parody ‘Amish Paradise’ where the scene is in reverse, Al lip synced the words backwards whilst shooting normally so when the scene was reversed Al’s lips matched the video.
BLy TIL that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony. The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
AW5B TIL paleontological research shows that the part of the human brain that controls hearing and our sense of smell shrank around the same time as we began to domesticate dogs.