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TIL Australia is home to the worlds oldest continuously living rainforest: the Daintree Rainforest. Aged at about 180,000,000 years old.

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b9x9j TIL the front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver is called "Shotgun"because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat.
QJjN9 TIL sculptor Tom Otterness adopted, chained, then shot and killed a dog for an art film and continues to get multi-million city contracts for sculptures.
kDr4 TIL that an heir to the Red Bull fortune killed a Bangkok police officer with his Ferrari in 2012 and still has never appeared at the prosecutor’s office to face charges.
VM7ZB TIL William Walker was a mercenary from Tennessee, who organized several military expeditions into Latin America. He usurped the presidency of Nicaragua in 1856. And ruled over there for 1 year, making him the first and only American president in a Latino country
0Xjy TIL that the word “nincompoop” meaning a fool or silly person comes from the Latin phrase “non compos mentis” meaning “not of sound mind”