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TIL Earth’s supercontinent is only in a trial separation, and is expected to be together again in 150 million years.

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9LXQ TIL that a physicist made his cat the co-author of his scientific paper to avoid replacing “we” with “I” throughout his paper.
PYPmg TIL Dr Joseph Goldberger proved in 1915 that pellagra was caused by poor diet in the South. Southern leaders refused to heed the advice of a northern Jewish doc and pellagra wasn't eradicated until 1945 when federal law required flour be fortified with thiamine, niacin, and iron
v1J7R TIL Telephone Party Lines Were Once High Entertainment - neighboring family's had to share 1 phone line in 20th century up in north country area due to telephone company's saying it was too expensive for individual installation. Each family had own 'ring tone' and could listen in on each other.
R486 TIL pavement damage is proportional to the fourth power of the vehicle weight, so a 9-ton truck does over 3000 times the road damage of a 1-ton car.
8epp8 TIL that the 2003 Somaliland presidential election, which was hailed as one of the freest and most transparent democratic exercises ever staged in the Horn of Africa, saw the candidate from a minority clan win by a margin of only 0.00016%, or 80 votes, over two other contenders