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TIL that A team of paleontologists has discovered 17 million-year-old sperm inside tiny shrimp fossils encased in bat guano on the walls of a cave in Queensland, Australia

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AjWw TIL that if Texas had the same population density as New York City, all of the world’s 7.4 billion people would fit inside the state’s borders.
0dXxL TIL that in 1960, the USA all by itself accounted for 40% of the entire planet’s GDP
4MJ TIL Furbies didn’t really “learn” English, they just started speaking more of it over a per-determined amount of time.
P14wZ TIL: There was an activist group in the UK named Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, or CIRCA in 2003-2005. In 2005, a clown gathering prompted the deployment of 10,000 officers. The group declined after operation HA.HA.HAA (Helping Authorities House Arrest Half-witted Authoritarian Androids).
jNOj TIL Voltaire’s last words, in response to being asked to renounce satan were, “Now is not the time for making new enemies”