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Til: That a Japanese Village was spared being destroyed during the 2011 tsunami by its huge seawall - a wall that its previous mayor had been harshly criticized for building

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1ZlV TIL That during a mass extinction event nicknamed ‘The Great Dying’ a full 96% of life on Earth was wiped out. Everything and everyone here today is descended from the 4% that survived.
arY9 TIL Herpes can immunize you against the Bubonic Plague.
awxZb TIL the Apollo program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the Sun, by NASA manager Abe Silverstein. Silverstein chose the name at home one evening, early in 1960, because he felt "Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program."
rRVJM TIL former Beatles roadie Mal Evans produced Badfingers top 10 hit No Matter What. He was also a reason how they became the first band signed under Apple Records.
beJ0 TIL a human kidney was put up on eBay starting at $25,000 and reached $5,750,100 before being taken down. “Of course only one for sale, as I need the other one to live.”