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TIL that millions of years ago Antarctica was once a rainforest that dinosaurs inhabited

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A15d TIL Most of the money George Clooney makes off his Nespresso commercials, he spends on a satellite that surveils over the border of North and South Sudan to keep an eye on criminal and dictator Omar al-Bashir to track his vicious army in an attempt to warn civilians before attacks occur
Xa6Q TIL that most people have some sort of herpes and it wasn’t actually stigmatized until a drug company found a way to profit from it.
X0OmP TIL that the British once tried to destroy an entire island after WW2 because they didn't want it to be used as a fleet base for the Germans. This was done in "Operation Big Bang" where they detonated 6700 tonnes of explosives, which is considered one of the largest single explosive detonation.
RZow TIL There has been an encrypted sculpture called “Kryptos” that is located on the grounds of the CIA headquarters since 1990 and has yet to be fully decrypted.
XE7EP TIL Morgan Freeman finds Black History Month ridiculous, stating “You're going to relegate my history to a month? I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history.”