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TIL that tomorrow marks the 8000th day of the internet

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d8LdZ TIL that in 1493, Christopher Columbus saw 'mermaids' and dexcribed them as 'not half as beautiful as they are painted' - they were actually manatees.
wm46 TIL you could stop both the original and the current Green Lantern with a #2 pencil.
VBRRG TIL that horses went extinct in North America about 10,000 years ago. They were then reintroduced to the continent by the Spanish as early as the 1550s.