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

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5VeLD Today I learned: New England was originally called New Holland, but after the Dutch won the battle against the Brits over who got control over Suriname, the Dutch gave up their colonies in the North Region of America, and it's why New York used to be called New Amsterdam.
RGX1 TIL: If you apply an electric current to a pickle it will glow in the dark
XQBE TIL In 2000 Rage Against the Machine performed a free concert outside the Democratic Convention in protest of the two party system. It was controversially dispersed with rubber bullets and tear gas.
nVyG TIL the main religious text of Sikhism, called the Guru Granth Sahib, is written in a Esperanto-like language constructed from main North Indian languages, Persian and Arabic. Its purpose to connect to a broader audience, and also to have an extensive vocabulary for oral poetry.
xYQg TIL If all new cars produced were powered by lithium batteries, the world would run out of lithium in ~30 years.