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TIL Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years whereas flowering plants came along around 130 million years ago. Butterflies survived without flowers for 70 million years

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mYPR TIL That a chinese food scandal resulted in some pork glowing blue in darkness. The meat still edible, and was soon dubbed “avatar-meat”
wavP TIL The voice of Bart Simpson is an evangelical Scientologist, and has been known to use her iconic Bart Simpson voice as part of a robocall encouraging people to attend a Scientology event in Los Angeles.
jnYR TIL that the current Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, owns a restaurant chain called the Earl of Sandwich, which specialises in sandwiches.
JYRK8 TIL Dolly Parton's father never learned to read, so 22 years ago she started a program to mail free books to young children. That program now sends out over 1.1 million books per month and is closing in on 100 million books total
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