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TIL that mere hours are sufficient to form fossils aka the Medusa Effect aka flash petrification

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KOY7G TIL AT&T forced Apple to block Skype calls on the iPhone between 2007-2009 because it competed with their own service
LQW50 TIL that in 60+ years of human spaceflight, only 675 people have been in space(by the USAF definition of flying at least 50 miles or 80 kilometres high)
xVVZ0 TIL Walt Disney Held And Personally Judged A Beauty Pageant Of His Female Artists
vGw4 TIL That African Time is a real thing. Instead of being a Time Zone, it is a perceived cultural tendency, in most parts of Africa, toward a more relaxed attitude to time.
OG4AR TIL that it wasn’t just Smallpox that was unintentionally introduced to the Americas, but also bubonic plague, measles, mumps, chickenpox, influenza, cholera, diphtheria, typhus, malaria, leprosy, and yellow fever. Indigenous Americans had no immunity to any of these diseases.