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TIL of the Wilkes land crater - a Gravitational anomaly buried under the Antarctic Ice Sheet which is believed to be an impact crater.The Wilkes crater is THREE times the size of the Chicxulub crater that wis believed too be responsible for the K-Pg mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs

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W0rd TIL that in 2006, Fiji water ran an ad saying “The label says Fiji because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. Cleveland took offense to that and ran some tests - turns out Cleveland’s tap water is better than Fiji’s bottled water.
859Z TIL Neil Simon wrote an intentionally bad Broadway play because his ex-wife was entitled to the profits as per their divorce agreement.
78k0p TIL Stone Age people used to practice trepanning – an early medical procedure that involved drilling a hole in the skull. The patients didn’t all die. Lots of skulls have been found with partly healed holes.
4ZBb TIL The Japanese Yakuza use a racketeering practice known as Sōkaiya to extort money from businesses. They buy enough shares to have a seat at meetings, then threaten to show up and disclose secrets about company leaders. This usually works because Japanese fear shame more than anything.
MePYK TIL that the common cultivated strawberry does not occur in nature. It is a hybrid of the Virginia wild strawberry and the Chilean beach strawberry, invented in France in the 18th century.