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TIL This Is America, 4x Grammy winner, was originally intended to be a diss record towards Drake

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E1dZP TIL of the Surya Siddhanta, a book written in 4th century CE in India which describes the Earth’s diameter as 8000 miles (7928 by current standards) and the spherical shape of the earth also providing an accurate distance of the Moon from the earth before much before Galileo.
R7lbw TIL Snails can sleep for 3 years
LkjPp TIL in 2005 Sony BGM released copy protection measures on 22 millions CDs that was classified as 'spyware' and installed itself on user's computers without permission causing a wide range of security and provacy concerns
d817j TIL that an astonishing amount of what we put in our recycling bins doesn't actually get recycled. Plastic being the worst offender with around 91% not actually being recycled.
oBjD8 TIL: Biologists have observed a lizard lay eggs and give birth to live young in the same pregnancy for the first time.