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TIL that the time separating Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus is greater than the time separating Tyrannosaurus and us!

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pZoO TIL in 2007 a man was named “greatest traveller on Earth”, after visiting every country and territory in the world between 1955 and 2005
KOxxw TIL when he was in fourth grade, Bill Watterson wrote to Charles Schulz, the creator of “Peanuts”, expressing his desire to become a professional cartoonist. Much to the young boy’s surprise, the cartoonist responded, encouraging Watterson to go on to create “Calvin and Hobbes.”
pYB04 TIL: in 2013, 64-year-old Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida. A distance of 110 miles. It took 53 hours.
vVjB TIL In order to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to the United States, the statue had to be broken down into 350 individual pieces and placed through 214 crates in just under a year after the completion
xDpo TIL some of Microsoft’s cloud is underwater and has an undersea data center that takes advantage of the sea’s natural cooling properties.