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TIL that sharks existed before trees ,sharks have been around for over 400 million years, while the first trees appeared about 350 million years ago.

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v1Mpj Today I learned that wasps lay their eggs inside adult cockroaches and larvae and when they hatch, they feed on the roaches from the inside out.
v1jK7 TIL that a Concorde supersonic airliner was once painted bright blue in Pepsi livery to promote the soda company's new logo. It had to slow down in flight so that the blue paint didn't overheat from air friction.
0o1v TIL 2LT Jackie Robinson was court martialed for refusing to move to the back of the bus while serving in the Army in 1944, 11 years before Rosa Parks’ famous refusal
97oD TIL that Thomas Peterffy was told by NASDAQ that his algorithmic trading was illegal because it lacked a keyboard so he created a robot with fingers to type all trades on the keyboard which made it legal - “the robot typed so fast it sounded like a machine gun.”
9RrM TIL of “Operation Unthinkable”. Winston Churchills plan to invade his Russian allies immediately after winning WW2. His plan was to enlist the help of the USA and the defeated German army.