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TIL humans live closer to the time of the T-Rex than the T.rex lived to the time of Stegosaurus

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GYPpG TIL the reason we write from left to right is to not smudge ink. The Greeks (from whom English is derived) mostly had right handed stone workers and when they began to use papyrus, left to right allowed them to see what they were writing as well as prevent ruining the paper by smudging the ink
XDMj TIL there are 340,000 to 680,000 slaves in Mauritania
Z8gJY TIL on April 2nd, 2018, Yihong Peng, the older brother of popular LoL player, Doublelift, was arrested after he attacked their parents with a knife in front of the family home in California. His mother was pronounced dead at the scene and his father was heavily injured but later recovered.
oRrNY TIL Tom Cruise is not allowed to own a Bugatti due to his inability to open the car door while he was on the red carpet in 2006.
8aOka TIL when in the 80s cheaper brands were lowering Intel's market share, the brand didn't know how to convince users to buy Intel-based PCs. But one retailer told them it would be enough to just tell people computers had Intel chips - and their idea, "Intel Inside" campaign, was a big sales success.