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TIL that the lowest/one of the lowest points on earth is Laguna del Carbón in Santa Cruz, Argentina

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9YwNX TIL about the Great Filter, a theory that suggests the reason we haen't found life in space is because they don't pass through a part of their evolution known as the Great Filter, which wipes out the species. Worse, humans won't know if we pass through the filter until it'd be too late to save us.
R5wBQ TIL that was film director Mike Nichols was the impetus for split up of Simon and Garfunkel
1a6rV TIL Ian McKellen was offered the role of Dumbledore after the death of Richard Harris. He turned it down because Harris once described McKellen as "technically brilliant, but passionless".
9YN8B TIL Stan Lee’s job classification in the American military during WWII was ‘playwright’. He didn’t find this out until he was discharged.
epgm6 TIL Facing a major banking and public debt crisis in 1340, Florence elected an executive council consisting of a butcher, a used cloth salesman, a dyer, a notary and a member of the Machiavelli family. They saved the state by enacting a radical plan of restructuring and re-funding the public debt