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TIL there are microscopic living things in solid rock up to 7 km deep, called Endoliths. So little energy is available they undergo cell division once every 100 years, and some may only divide once every 10,000 years.

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N71WE TIL Documentary Filmmaker Brian Fogle accidentally discovered the Russian State Sponsored Doping program while making a movie about how to beat doping tests. The movie is credited with helping start the investigation that ended up blocking Russia from competing at the Olympics since 2017
1akoO TIL the first known appearance of the phrase "Taco Tuesday" is in the October 16, 1933, edition of the El Paso Herald-Post, in an advertisement for the White Star Cafeteria at the St. Regis Hotel.
0wWyp TIL Silicon Valley began in Palo Alto because the inventor of the transistor wanted his new company to be closer to his sick mother's house
E1orx TIL in 1963, Alweg (known for Disneyland's Monorail) offered to fund/build a monorail transit system throughout Los Angeles County at no cost to county taxpayers. Instead, L.A. County authorities killed off the project due to being pressured from Standard Oil of California and General Motors.
xVOvw TIL that in 1953, Jerry Stiller met actress-comedienne, Anne Meara, and they married in 1954. Until Stiller suggested it, Meara had never thought of doing comedy. Before Seinfeld, the comedy team Stiller and Meara, was successful in the 1960s and 1970s. They were married together for over 60 years.