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TIL There were volcanos erupting on the moon when dinosaurs existed

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wLjm8 TIL sloth’s hands work opposite from our own. They close to relax and exert energy to open, which is what allows them to hang from the canopy for extended periods of time and sleep while hanging from a tree.
jN5Dp TIL the earliest recorded use of LOL as an initialism was for "little old lady" in the 1960s. During the Apollo mission, ferrite cores were used as transformers and acted as either a binary one or zero. The LOLs created the required software by weaving together sequences of one and zero cores.
leR7 TIL that New York municipal authorities will implement a plan for mass sterilization of the city’s rats, using a chemical to neutralize the reproductive systems of female rats.
695MX TIL An independent Northern counterfeiter named Samuel C. Upham made so much fake Southern money during the American Civil War that experts think it made up around 1-3% of the total currency supply of the Confederacy.
OovRY TIL the EU has banned 1,300 chemicals used in cosmetics, the US has only banned 11.