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R7Qml TIL 140 million years ago, India was part of an immense supercontinent called Gondwana, in the Southern Hemisphere. About 80 million years ago, it accelerated its drift to Eurasia at about 15cm per year — about twice as fast as the fastest modern tectonic drift. The impact created the Himalayas.
X9Q TIL of a 2005 film that has been destroyed and suppressed by Showtime because it makes fun of the poor.
78W57 TIL Australia has slightly more land mass than the contiguous United States. Five of the six mainland states are each bigger than Texas. Just Victoria, containing the 2nd largest city Melbourne, is smaller.
8exGZ TIL an Afghan immigrant invented and sold the process for Minute Rice to General Mills.
9KBD TIL There is a wasp that lays its eggs inside ladybugs. The ladybug lives normally until the wasp larva emerges, immobilizes it, and builds a cocoon on the ladybug’s leg. The ladybug remains alive in a zombified state, and will even fight off predators, allowing the cocooned wasp to safely mature.