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TIL that 55 million years ago the North Pole had the climate of today's Miami

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woDmY TIL that in the past, some cars had deployable people-catchers that would grab people in the road instead of running them over.
MeRpW TIL of Kathy Hobbs, a girl who had a premonition that she wouldn’t live to be 16. She reached the age and relaxed, making plans for her future. 3 months later, she was abducted and killed. She’d written letters to her family, dated 1 month before her birthday, telling them how much she loved them.
A51g TIL Christopher Walken likes to edit the punctuation of every script he gets, so he can say things the way he wants to
abg0 TIL, in honor of a 1982 The Far Side comic, the spiked end of a stegosaurus’s tail is referred to by paleontologists as the “Thagomizer”.
QeRM TIL in 1990, Kerry Packer, the richest man in Australia, purchased defibrillators for every ambulance in New South Wales after his life was saved by an rescue crew that had one of the few defibrillators in the country.