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TIL that the game Snooker was invented by a British Army officer in India called Neville Chamberlain (Not the former Prime Minister). The name "Snooker" came from and was used as a derogatory term for first year, inexperiended soldiers

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9wJnQ TIL Of the great oxydation event: a single type of oxygen producing bacteria is responsible for terraforming earth from largely oxygen free to the earth we know today, giving rise to oxygen based life and causing a mass extinction of anaerobic life forms, wiping out about 80% of them
pjkb TIL In space, if unprotected pieces of metal touch each other, they stick together permanently.
YmkP TIL a man received the heart of a suicide victim, married his widow, and years later killed himself in the same way the donor did.
0BEy TIL the City of Los Angeles uses 96 million plastic balls to cover its water supply to prevent evaporation, saving enough drinking water for 8,100 people per year.
5Vngr TIL the One World Trade Center is exactly 1776 feet tall.