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TIL that lichens cover about 7% of the Earth's surface; about the same size as the Indian Ocean

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8a0LV TIL of the Dryton and Apollonia archive, a family archive from 2nd century BC Egypt which contains info for 3 generations of a soldier's family, in the form of wills, divorce papers, financial accounts, personal letters etc
8eG7X TIL that there is a town under water in the state of Maine because a greedy power company flooded it for their own use and when not all homeowners agreed to sell, they flooded it anyway.
PY9PL TIL during the premiere of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ 241 people walked out of the theater demanding to know what the film was about. Creator Arthur C. Clarke once said, “If you understand ‘2001’ completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered.”
R7wb1 TIL Despite not being neighboring countries, Slovak and Slovenian are often confused for each other. Many political leaders have referred to leaders as being from the other country than they are from, and their national anthem and flags sometimes get confused for the wrong country.
nE7G TIL That there is a group that believes that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a large hoax; and nobody was hurt or killed.