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TIL Grass didn't exist until the Cretaceous

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DGND TIL a mason in 1700’s Jerusalem left his wooden ladder behind after doing some work on a church and now it can’t be moved without the agreement and permission of six different Christian leaders.
RVOl TIL Between 1964 and 1996, the People’s Republic of China conducted 46 nuclear tests in East Turkestan, the homeland of millions of Uyghurs. Some of the bombs were 300 times more powerful than the one exploded in Hiroshima.
MeJPV TIL In the early 70s the US Fish and Wildlife Service established the National Eagle Repository as a hub to receive and then redistribute eagle parts found dead around the US to Native Americans and Alaskan Natives for religious purposes.
VMv8Z TIL Cato the Elder's constant reiteration of "Carthage must be destroyed" was countered by Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum's constant reiteration of "Carthage should be preserved". Scipio's opinion prevailed at the time because many Romans believed that the threat of Carthage united them.
5YBVk TIL that there is a collection of viruses in our bodies known as the virome. These viruses do not only infect us but they can also infect the bacteria(microbiome) in our bodies. The stable equilibrium of virus infecting the bacteria in our gut is believed to be why we are immune to certain viruses.