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TIL that America is actually metric

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9YEAm TIL at the dawn of the dinosaurs 250 million years ago, the day was on 23 hours long.
5yAQ TIL those making less than $10,000 a year spend $597 on the lottery meanwhile the average US household spends $162. States not only know this; they actually target the poor with lottery ads.
gRXD TIL That Sony sued itself in 2000
XEWnQ TIL that Austrian architect, Eduard van der Nüll, decided to null himself by committing suicide after learning that Emperor Franz Joseph said he didn’t like the opera house Nüll built. Later Emperor Franz felt awful & never said anything bad about art or architecture again.
ykyl TIL there is a group of dog breeders attempting to bring back the look of the dire wolf