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TIL that flying cars were invented in 1954

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E1MM7 TIL that Pangaea wasn't the "first" continent where everything formed in one place, and that many super continents existed before it due to cyclical plate tectonic activity
M7YJ8 TIL about this 400 year old Japanese white pine Bonsai, which has been taken care of for 5 generations, and survived Hiroshima
4X476 TIL that after Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said NBA referee manager Ed Rush "wouldn't be able to manage a Dairy Queen", Dairy Queen management took offence and offered to let Cuban manage a Dairy Queen for a day. Cuban accepted.
ZlMo TIL that when John D. Rockefeller died in 1937, his assets equaled 1.5% of America’s total economic output. Bill Gates has about .38% today.
EBJd TIL: Scoring a condor is the rarest event in golf. This is normally a hole in one at a par five and only four condors have ever been recorded: