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TIL 300 million years ago in north america there was a poisonous millipede the size of a car, called The Arthropleura.

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neDr7 TIL "The Producers" Broadway show on Curb Your Enthusiasm which stars Larry David and David Schwimmer is a real Broadway show written by Mel Brooks which adaptation of his 1968 film features fading producer Max Bialystock.
m11jO TIL of the Sydney Tar Ponds, an area in Sydney, Nova Scotia where a local steel mill was continuously pouring over 750,000 tons of sludge and toxic chemicals into the area for over 100 years. The $400m cleanup finished by burying the sludge in concrete and turning it into a local park.
GJEJ TIL of 286 scholarly investigations: 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses, that demonstrate women are as physically aggressive, or more, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 371,600.
eZ6g TIL When Turkey objected to the inclusion of Mount Ararat located on Turkish territory on Armenian’s soviet coat of arms Nikita Khrushchev replied “Why do you have a moon depicted on your flag? After all, the moon doesn’t belong to Turkey”
P1YLE TIL the Gulf Cartel criminal organization is currently headquartered in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, a town directly across the U.S. border from Brownsville, Texas.