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TIL Earth's oldest land ecosystem was spotted in South African rock cores

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PY7XG TIL When he was still with Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne was once billed £100,000 ($200,000) for lighting fireworks inside a hotel hallway.
69R1W TIL, the 1996 Lake Huron Cyclone was a low pressure cyclonic storm which formed over Lake Huron in September of 1996.
VMR94 TIL in 2007, Russia used a mini-submarine to plant the country's flag on the floor of the Arctic Ocean in an attempt to claim the region and its natural resources, a move that was rejected by the U.N.
E1xpP TIL "burking" is the death by asphyxiation caused by someone sitting on your chest and holding his hand over your mouth and nose. It is named after the Scottish serial killer William Burke, who used this method in order to leave few marks on the victims which he then sold to Anatomical Institutes.
Ooj4e TIL that there is s fungus called xylaria polymorpha which looks like dead man fingers protruding from the ground.