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

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wjv6 TIL that Scott Adams began writing “Dilbert” based on experiences he was having at his employment. Rather than fire him, they gave him meaningless work in an effort to get him to quit - which just gave him more time and material for “Dilbert.”
N7XvJ TIL they clean the Taj Mahal with mud
rNa70 TIL we are literally Drowning in plastic, every year 481 billion plastic bottles are sold, more than enough to bury the Burj Khalifa, well done to Reuters for such an impactful (and rather disturbing) visualisation!
GL97 TIL that in 1921, A mob of angry, heavily armed whites attacked the richest african american community in the U.S. at the time - (In Tulsa, OK) killing anywhere from 55- 300 blacks. Bi-planes were even used to drop incendiary bombs on buildings and fleeing families.
wkEo TIL Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson) is a master woodworker who made a marijuana stash box and “Lord of the Rings styled pipe” to smoke out of.