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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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gM1jA TIL that the Concorde supersonic airliner burned two tons of fuel just taxing from the gate to the runway
9Y6kp TIL that billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper once paid $43.5 million for the beachfront mansion of a former boss who rejected him for a promotion, and promptly had it demolished.
v7mB TIL that 1.7 billion years ago, there was a natural nuclear reactor that ran for a few hundred thousand years.
M7M6A TIL that some people dream in black and white https://www.thelist.com/434087/the-weird-reason-people-dream-in-black-and-white
epD8D TIL of the Town of Bingham Canyon, which was founded as a copper mining town in 1863, before being completely consumed by the copper mine as it grew. The Bingham Canyon Mine is now the largest man-made open pit mine in the world, and one of the deepest as well.