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TIL that the supercontinent Pangaea was not the first supercontinent. There were at least three before it

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0BJR TIL that when 16 year old John Paul Getty III was kidnapped in 1973, his billionaire grandfather refused to pay $17 million ransom. After the kidnappers mailed Getty’s ear to a newspaper, his grandfather only agreed to pay $2.2 million because that was the maximum amount that was tax deductible.
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oM0K TIL that a prison restaurant staffed by inmates was recently voted the best restaurant in Cardiff, Wales on Tripadvisor.
PyBL TIL that Sony Pictures went so trigger-happy with their illegitimate “copyright infringement” take-downs over the flop ‘Pixels’ that even the official trailer was taken down.
WkZRd TIL that Nicolas Cage did NOT steal a chihuahua and has successfully sued Kathleen Turner, her book publisher, and The Daily Mail for those rumors