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TIL they buried a 1957 Plymouth underground for 50 years, The Car That Became a Time Capsule

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APdw TIL of the Oh-My-God particle, a subatomic particle detected to be traveling at 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light, carrying the same energy as a 60 mph baseball
gb5y TIL: Joan Kroc, wife of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc, donated over $1 billion to the Salvation Army. At one point, she tried to donate the Padres baseball team to San Diego, but the MLB rules forbid public ownership.
p098 TIL a respected German anthropologist whose ‘discoveries’ helped shape our understanding of modern man was found to have falsified most of his data - one skeleton he claimed was from 27,400 BC was later dated to 1750 AD.
yAbl TIL that all Sikh places of worship serve free meals for all visitors, regardless of religious, regional, cultural, racial, caste, or class affiliations.
X0APP TIL hippos, the same species that now lives in Africa, used to be found in England (130-115k years ago)