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TIL: There will be a SpongeBob SquarePants movie sequel!

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mxEaY TIL that Aztecs were one of the few ancient civilizations where education was mandatory for everyone, boys and girls from all social status were educated at home and later at schools (although the kind of school depended on gender and class)
klg5 TIL Genghis Khan killed an estimated 40 million people, resulting in a man-made climate change. The Mongol invasion effectively cooled the planet, scrubbing around 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere.
MeQMV TIL that after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the prime minister of Portugal sent a query to parishes around the country in order to objectively understand what happened. He is now regarded as a forerunner of modern seismological scientists.
KvrG TIL a man tied 45 weather balloons to a lawn chair and packed a gun to shoot himself down. Instead of raising the planned 100 feet he shot up 16,000
p8xje TIL a 14 year old pretended to work for “Canadian News” and scored at 40 minute interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono