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TIL the earliest known maps are of the stars, not the earth.

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Y8ar TIL when trees evolved, it took 60 mil. years for fungi to evolve the ability to break down lignin. Trees fell over and didn’t decompose, storing vast amounts of carbon, resulting in an oxygen-rich atmosphere that favored enormous insects; burning in massive fires; and producing our stores of coal.
7r9XZ TIL that in 1985 French Military Agents bombed a green peace vessel in a New Zealand harbor that was there to protest French Nuclear testing on a nearby island. The blast killed one crewmember.
N7Ep6 TIL Russian television made an official 'House M.D.' remake called "Doctor Richter'
lmQa TIL: There are more than 450 different english translations of the bible. They all say things differently and It has been discovered that there are translation errors in all the popular english versions. Many christians may have beliefs based off a mistranslation.
e0poL TIL the saying 'Great minds think alike' has a second part, 'and small minds rarely differ.'