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TIL of the Hell Creek Formation, a band of 66-million-year-old rocks that records the last million years of the dinosaurs’ reign and is found in parts of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota and North Dakota. It’s where the T Rex was discovered in 1902

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WpEd TIL Americans read TWICE as much as they did 60 years ago
D1JxJ TIL the term c-note originated in the 1930s taken from the Roman numeral C (for 100)
wPbY TIL Nixon deployed 25,000 soldiers to NYC in 1970 to deliver mail after carriers went on strike.
6eDJ TIL that while in the army Mr. T was given the punishment of chopping down trees. The sergeant didn’t tell him how many, so Mr. T single-handedly chopped down 70 in 3.5 hours.
W7o8B TIL Christiaan Huygens was one of the first astronomers to apply mathematical principles to the design of optics rather than trial and error, and his telescope could study Saturn's ring system. The Huygenian eyepiece he invented in the 17th century is still in use today