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TIL that in the history of the Earth, we’re closer to Tyrannosaurus Rex than T. Rex is to the Stegosaurus.

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N7K61 TIL that Catherine Zeta-Jones was initially offered the lead role in Chicago, but turned it down in favor of playing Velma just so she could sing "All That Jazz."
dDMDE TIL that the first movie depicting the sinking of the Titanic was released just 29 days after the tragedy, and even starred an actual survivor.
woX8W TIL that around the globe, no country produces more electricity than China. At nearly eight million gigawatt-hours of electricity annually (7,779,100 GWh), China leads the rest of the world by quite a large margin, nearly double the amount of the second-ranked United States (4,286,600 GWh).
90Zm TIL Groucho Marx, on a trip to Berlin in 1958, danced the Charleston on the rubble of Hitler’s bunker
7noZ TIL people sell positive pregnancy tests on Craig’s list