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TIL there’s a sixth extinction event which is still ongoing and mostly caused by the arrival of humans

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a8J4o TIL Dateline journalist Keith Morrison was Matthew Perry's stepfather
YVjr TIL the wheel was invented thousands of years after boats, woven cloth, rope, sewing needles, baskets and even the flute.
OoAr6 TIL the Swiss Army Knives are red so they can more easily be found when dropped in snow
y49e TIL that Coke Zero is specifically marketed toward men, who were shown to associate Diet Coke with femininity.
EgGax TIL when John Steinbeck published The Grapes Of Wrath in 1939, a farm worker with two leaders of California Associated Farmers publicly burned a copy of the book because he did not like what he heard about it, even though he had not read it. After reading it years later, he said he “had no regrets.”