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TIL The Mini Cooper was designed by a Greek car designer, Alec Issigonis

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78DDX TIL the Permian–Triassic extinction event that occurred approximately 251.9 million years ago is considered Earth's most severe known extinction event. 57% of biological families, 83% of genera, 81% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species became extinct.
neWn7 The most popular artificial material on Earth isn’t steel, plastic, or aluminum — it’s concrete. Thousands of years ago, we used it to build civilizations, but then our knowledge of how to make it was lost. Here’s how we discovered concrete, forgot it, and then finally cracked the mystery of what makes it so strong.
0xr1 TIL in the 1970s after Boeing fired 63,000 employees in Seattle alone, someone put up this billboard: “Will the last person leaving Seattle - Turn out the lights.”
WkAnX TIL that Disney fired Steve Whitmire (voice of Kermit the Frog for 27 years) for speaking up against changes being made to the character that he felt were against what creator Jim Henson would have wanted.
epr0k TIL Abraham Lincoln was a wrestler when he was young and lost just 1 match out of the 300 total that he competed in