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TIL: It’s doubtful that dinosaurs would be able to survive today. During the Cretaceous Period 145-66 million years ago the average global temperature was 4ºC higher than today, with little difference between the temperature of the equator and the poles

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rNXAw TIL about the Fallen Astronaut, a 3.5 in/8.9 cm aluminum sculpture. It is a stylized figure of an astronaut in a spacesuit, intended to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration. It was placed on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 15 in 1971
jYRE TIL Schoolhouse Rock! was created by an ad agency exec who noticed that his son had learned every Beatles lyric but could not remember multiplication tables.
LRam TIL In 2011 NASA discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water in space to date; clocking in at 12 billion lightyears from Earth and holding the equivalent of 140 trillion times all the Earths oceans.
ldVa TIL that J.K. Rowling released a book called “The Cuckoo’s Calling” under a pseudonym, so that it will get no hype & anticipation, after she was revealed to be the writer, the book’s sales surged up to 4000%
LQbyQ TIL that some turtles can breathe through their butts, a process known as cloacal respiration.