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TIL that Australia had a large inland sea called the Eromanga Sea during the Cretaceous Period.

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PMen TIL that Henry Darger, a Janitor in Chicago, spent his life writing a 15,000 page fantasy novel (with original artwork) that was only discovered posthumously.
pA14 TIL that police shot and killed at least 94 pet dogs in the U.S. in 2000. By 2008, that number spiked to 681. And through October 2014 there were at least 510 dog shootings by cops.
Raow TIL in 1930, Senators who didn’t like having to dial telephone numbers, wanted to ban dial telephones.
dDM5K TIL The Nazis had a unit of 6,000 Indians POWs who joined the ranks of the Hitlers army
x6yg5 TIL in Japan people count with their fingers in the opposite direction, where 1 is indicated by 4 fingers