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TIL in 1998 someone pulled an April Fools claiming Alabama had redefined pi to 3.0 to bring it in line with biblical values. Politicians got calls complaining

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BrbKx TIL that the largest discovery of Viking ships was made during the excavations for the expansion of the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum in Denmark
W74DX TIL Martin Scorsese was once married to Isabella Rossellini
R7pB4 TIL about “mad honey,” a honey made by bees gathering pollen from rhododendrons. “To put it mildly, just one spoonful can get you as effed up as a football bat” -
16aED TIL the longest word ever used in literature is from a 391 BC work by Aristophanes: Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon
gMGrb TIL scientists estimate around 2.5 billion T. Rex lived over the species' ~127,000 generations. At any given time, around 20,000 individuals walked the earth.