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TIL Scientists have found out what the air was like millions of years ago by using air bubbles in ice.

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LkNrv TIL that cursive handwriting has already been removed from the curricula of 41 states.
EgYL0 TIL that in 2015, a Columbian man's lung tumors were found to be the result of a tapeworm that had burrowed inside him developing cancer and spreading it to the man.
lXP5 TIL that you would have to smoke 1500 pounds of weed in 14 minutes to get a lethal dose of THC. The interesting things you learn in pharmacy school :)
Z8o8Y TIL that the cover for Death Grip’s debut mixtape Exmilitary, is a picture of a man from an old National Geographic magazine that drummer Zach Hill kept around as a symbol of power, years later finding that it fit the mixtape perfectly and became the official cover in 2011
yVvP8 TIL of HAVOC: High Altitude Venus Operational Concept - which would include artificial floating islands on Venus at an altitude that provides better living conditions than the surface of Mars or Titan