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TIL Kazakhstan was the last nation to leave the Soviet Union on December 16, 1991, four days after Russia left

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78YNx TIL a Construction Company is older than Islam
7raXP TIL of the Hathaway Effect: When actress Anne Hathaway is trending on social media, Wall Street algorithms buy Berkshire Hathaway stock, causing the price to spike.
BrQPx TIL Slugs evolved from snails, and when baby snails are exposed to platinum, they turn into slugs.
grrX9 TIL Aeschylus, one of the greatest tragedians of ancient Greece, regarded as the father of the genre itself, died after a bird dropped a tortoise on his head, thinking it was a rock to break it open.
78GQb TIL that the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the continental US occurred in New Madrid, MO, in 1812. It was so violent that the shaking was felt in New York, made church bells ring in South Carolina, and made part of the Mississippi River run backwards.