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TIL YOU were the Time Person of the Year 2006

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Wlb8 TIL that in Greek mythology Zeus thought that the Earth is overpopulated and Trojan War was instigated to depopulate the Earth.
0wDLN TIL that the main component of the Earth's upper mantle is a yellow-greenish mineral called olivine.
rYKo TIL the photo on the cover of Neil Young’s Silver and Gold was taken with a Game Boy Camera
X0DY8 TIL Before the invention of radar during World War II, incoming enemy warplanes were detected by listening with the aid of "sound locators" that looked more like musical instruments than tools of war.
X0B9D TIL that the fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. The 36-letter word was first used by the Roman poet Horace to criticise those writers with an unreasonable penchant for long words. It was an American poet, Aimee Nezheukumatathil, to rediscover it.