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TIL Bald faced lie isn't a mispronunciation or misunderstanding of bold faced lie. They are both sayings and mean different things.

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0de01 TIL that in the thousands of years after the meteor killed off the dinosaurs, the planet was almost entirely dominated by ferns 🌿, and now scientists are trying to replicate the meteor strike in a greenhouse to figure out why!
M7yJV TIL in Ancient Rome, the Rex Nemorensis was a priest of Diana Nemorensis. An escaped slave became Rex Nemorensis by breaking a branch of a tree to engage the current priest in mortal combat
16x4D TIL twice as much Wind power was created in America between 2017-2020 than 2013-2016 (22.8 GW vs 40.5 GW)
XwgX TIL an MIT geek in the 70’s convinced a record label he had a band recording an album in LA. In reality he mixed the entire thing himself from old homemade demo tapes in a run-down basement in Boston. It only cost a few thousand dollars to create, and sold more than 20 million copies worldwide
OGX56 TIL about the "Sub-Cloud Car," a small pod that was lowered through the clouds by a cable suspended from Zeppelins flying above cloud cover for scouting and spying below the clouds