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TIL Ancient Earth May Have Smelled Like Rotten Eggs

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BrQNd TIL The word ‘orange’ was used as the name of the fruit for around 200 years before being used as a colour.
LnnZ TIL the founder of Bitcoin is someone called Satoshi Nakamoto. Nobody knows who he is, what his real name is or where he lives. He holds 1 million bitcoins, equivalent to $1.1 billion
dDDNZ TIL the first indoor mall in the US was opened in 1955 in Wisconsin
gWg7 TIL there was a chimp named Congo who painted over 400 paintings. If zoologists tried to take away a painting before he considered it finished he would flip out, and if he considered a painting finished he couldn’t be made to continue it.
MelgB TIL The Chief Engineer for the SR-71 started as a tool engineer but was promoted for detecting a flaw in an airliner that made it unstable. He went on to create the famous Lockheed Skunkworks.