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TIL that sharks are older than Saturn’s rings

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JKBj TIL of a boat carrying horses for transportation that was shipwrecked, but the horses on it swam to a nearby island. The horses have since lost all domestication and the island has a population of more than 450 wild horses today
APx4 TIL that The Dark Knight was the first Batman movie to not have the word Batman in the title and also to not have any bats throughout the film
6OQW TIL A U.S. FDA study showed 90% of more than 100 drugs, prescription and over-the-counter, “were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date.” The U.S. military saved $260 million in five years by not discarding expired drugs.
A4W7 TIL that Canada has passed a law banning genetic discrimination - when providing a service or signing a contract, among other things - and which is now included within the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Yp1x7 TIL that the acre unit of measurement was originally developed from the amount of area that a pair of oxen could plow in single day