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TIL that 300 million years ago, the Appalachians, Scottish Highlands, and Morocco's Atlas/Anti-Atlas Mountains were connected as a single, Himalayan-sized mountain chain.

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B8lb TIL Braille was originally created as a way for Napoleon’s spies to read documents without needing any light. It was Louis Braille that pointed out the flaws of the code which created the version we use today.
WQXN TIL The Dodo bird was actually a giant pigeon. It grew and lost it’s ability to fly due to Island Gigantism.
ADrMl TIL the Mission Command Center, used by NASA for such missions as the Apollo 11 moon landing, was built by Philco-Ford, a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company.
W7yVB TIL about De Defectibus, a set of instructions about what to do in case anything goes wrong during the Sacrement of the Eucharist, including if rats steal the bread used or if the priest dies during mass.
eyj4 TIL in 2012, the White House responded to a petition to have a Death Star built by stating that “the Administration does not support blowing up planets” and that it would not fund a weapon “with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship”.