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TIL Thomas Jefferson was skeptical about extinction, and thought mastodons were probably lurking in the deep West.

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1aRRP TIL When Robert Downey Jr became clean and sober after years of drug issues, no studio would hire him and no insurance company would insure him, and it was Mel Gibson who gave him his first acting job and paid the insurance from his own pocket to ensure Downey's career would be resurrected.
Mmpb TIL that one liter of gasoline can deliver 35 megajoule of energy. This is the amount of energy one square meter of land receives from the sun, in the best conditions, in approximately ten hours.
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