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TIL That the Woolly Mammoth was around when the Egyptian Pyramids were being built.

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epjdJ TIL while Lion King(1994) earned $2 billion in box office and home media, it earned $3 billion and $8 billion in merchandising and stage adatation respectively.
GYRlE TIL the town of Rjukan, Norway receives no natural sunlight from September to March due to the steep mountains that surround it. They've installed 3 large mirrors to reflect light into the town's square. The mirrors track the sun's path and move every 10 secs to create a 600m squared pool of light.
VMYVB TIL that there’s a spider that is capable of insight, trial-and-error learning, and puzzle solving due its source of food: other spiders.
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NkBJ TIL in 1991 a man found a first printing of the Declaration of Independence, inside the frame of a $4 painting he’d bought at a flea market. It sold at auction for $2.4 million.