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TIL that 35 million years ago, with the force of millions of nuclear weapons, an asteroid slammed into earth instantly turning the ground below it into diamonds

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GYL7E Til that there was a Titanic short film that was released 19 days after the tragedy.It starred Dorothy Gibson who survived the actual titanic.But no prints survive today,making it a lost film.
699Xw TIL about Dervla Murphy, an Irish woman who bicycled from Ireland to India in the 1960s with a budget of £64.
VKb4 TIL - With 25 billion hours (2.85 million years) of total game play, people have played Call of Duty for longer than the course of human existence.
YA8G TIL Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, son of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
e0RlL TIL in Monty Python and the Holy Grail the actors mimed riding horses because the small production budget didn't allow for real horses to be used.