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TiL the Mediterranean filled in just 2 years when the Atlantic breached what we know as the straight of Gibraltar.

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pX5A TIL a town in Florida was named Frostproof as a marketing plot to claim that the town would never have a citrus frost. Less than two years after its founding a frost killed most of the citrus in town.
0M6j TIL “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” is not a quote from Voltaire. It comes from Kevin Alfred Strom, a white supremacist and convicted pedophile.
6yWX TIL that the Roman Emperor Valentinian got so mad at Quadi envoys who blamed the Romans for a recent war between the two that he burst a blood vessel in his skull and died while yelling at them.
D157V TIL that Nintendo pushed usage of the term "game console" so people would stop calling products from other manufacturers "Nintendos", otherwise they would have risked losing their trademark.
a8QXL TIL that penguins have knees. (And the bone structure is indistinguishable from the bone structure of a human knee.)