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TIL that Daintree Rainforest in Australia is the World's Oldest Tropical Rainforest

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v18a8 TIL the constellation Argo Navis (representing a ship) was considered impractical by astronomers for being too big and in 1930 it was broken down in three constellations: Carina (the hull), Puppis (the Deck) and Vela (the sail)
78ebp TIL that when Harold Urey was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of deuterium ("heavy hydrogen"), a component of "heavy water", he declined to attend the award ceremony in Stockholm so as to be present at the birth of his daughter.
7rj1O TIL the lone Supreme Court justice to dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson grew up in a household with a light-skinned, blue-eyed slave who was treated much like a family member. The slave, Robert Harlan, was believed to be John Harlan’s older half-brother. Even John’s father believed Robert was his son.
VMRED TIL Mama llama's hum to their babies and can spit from three different stomachs depending on how much they don't like you.
W7XKY TIL Formula 1 race car driver Alex Zanardi cheated death 3 times. In 2001 he was in a horrific crash and lost both legs. In 2020 he had a massive head injury and was in a medically induced coma. Finally, he had severe smoke inhalation from a house fire in 2022.