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TIL There were volcanos erupting on the moon when dinosaurs existed

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XpOj TIL Airlines are beginning to use charcoal in their seats to absorb the smell of your farts
p8DPe TIL that many elements of Harry Potter are very similar to a book written 3 years before. The Secret of Platform 13 features a boy of magical lineage who lives with in an abusive house with a spoilt other child, and you get to the magical world through a platform at King's Cross.
J1vG4 TIL that Empress Yuan ruled as Emperor for a few hours in Wei China after her grandmother falsely pretended she was a boy.
1amV4 TIL that BMI was invented by a French "mathematician" - not a physician - who hoped it would be used as the basis for eugnenics
0w5Qv TIL about the Rihanna curse, when horrible weather in the UK, New Zealand, and Romania coincided with the song Umbrella being the #1 song in those countries