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TIL: Of the Blood Falls, a waterfall in Antarctica made up of primordial bacteria which have been sealed away from the rest of the earth for millions of years.

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9wplr TIL Lamborghini started out as Lamborghini Trattori, which designed, built and sold tractors
74ZL TIL a 195 million year old dinosaur bone was found with soft tissue still preserved in it
8a4EZ TIL that a dog’s age is not 7 times human age, but: 16(ln(dog’s age))+31. It’s a natural logarithmic curve, so a 1-year old dog is about 31 in human years, and a 10-year old is about 68. (Link has calculator!)
9wkDB TIL Lou Pai was a senior executive at Enron who, after having an affair with a stripper, to satisfy his divorce settlement, cashed out $250 million of his Enron stock just before the company's stock price collapsed and it filed for bankruptcy protection.
8a65Z TIL A poll found that only two thirds of Americans aged 18 to 24 believed the world was round. This is partly due to a shift towards populism and distrust in the views of experts and mainstream media.