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TIL Grass didn't exist until the Cretaceous

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XE578 TIL the population of Phytoplankton has dropped 40% since the 1950’s. Phytoplankton contribute 70% more Oxygen to our earth than trees do. (I.E. We need to care about the ocean!)
e04Z5 TIL of “The Petition of the Sharks of Africa.” An 18th Century satirical letter written to the British Parliament asking them NOT to abolish slave trading. The “sharks” were angry that slave ships would no longer sink and asked for mercy so loyal shark subjects wouldn’t starve.
e0kWD TIL of the Lizardman Constant, which basically says that 4% of polling data is worthless due to people either being insane or deliberately corrupting your data
Z8xNo TIL that Mr. Robot actor Rami Malek has an identical twin called Sami Malek, who works as a teacher. They occasionally swap places.
lonoA TIL Princess Olga of Kiev (a saint in the Catholic Church) was courted by the same tribe that killed her husband & proceeded to bury the tribe's suiters alive, burned the tribe's best warriors alive, slaughtered around 5,000 tribesmen during a celebration and burned their capital to the ground.