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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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Me0rA TIL that of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken today, it has been estimated that a staggering 90% of them will be extinct within the next 30 years.
OGDZa TIL a 2011 study found over 80% of water-based lubricants were toxic to cells and increased risk of HIV-1
8er8P TIL that Five for Fighting is a single person who was in a two man band called John Scott
b9VM9 TIL according to Buddhism, at the core of all human beings and living creatures, there is no "eternal, essential and absolute something called a soul, self or atman". Nirvana, or liberation, is defined as the blissful state when a person realizes that he or she has "no self, no soul".
b9VXZ TIL That one of the founders of Whataburger was a pilot and designed the buildings as such so that he would be able to spot his own establishments when in the air. He later died in a private plane crash