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TIL that mammalian evolution has been fundamentally driven by viruses

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9YkEm TIL: Central Park's Lamp Posts have a unique 4 digit code that will geolocate you anywhere in the park. So you're never lost.
MVYA TIL the United States sent 813 men, 27 helicopters and nuclear capable bombers to cut down a tree in the Korean DMZ.
E1MVV TIL researchers made a 3-D virtual chest reconstruction of a 60,000-yr-old male Neanderthal skeleton called "Kebara 2" or “Moshe”. They found that he didn't have a hunched posture but would stand upright with a straight spine; he had a similar-size chest to humans today but greater lung capacity.
R7mw4 TIL in 1954 the obninsk nuclear power plant near Moscow was connected to the electrical grid, becoming the world's first nuclear power plant to produce electricity industrially.
epgvD TIL Lionel Jeffries who played the grandpa in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was only one year older than Dick Van Dyke