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TIL there were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs roamed the earth

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neKgW TIL that Linus Pauling, the extremely smart scientist who claimed Vitamin C would treat the common cold, prolong your life, and cure cancer, died in 1994 due to prostate cancer, a disease that he said vitamins would cure.
WkERA TIL The oldest running company is a Japanese hotel that's been running since 705.
e9Ok TIL that the very first episode of Cops starts off with an El Camino that has a homemade cardboard box stuffed with police officers.
X9kP TIL in 2008 a Texas man tried to make his suicide look like a murder by tying helium balloons to the gun so it would float away and look like someone else had done it. The investigator was able to solve the case after he obtained a copy of an October 2003 episode of CSI showing a similar hoax
mxd1R TIL in 1988, Greek cyclist Kanellos Kanellopoulos flew 119 km from Crete to Santorini in an MIT-built aircraft powered only by pedals, paying tribute to the mythical flight of Daedalus and Icarus