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TIL: Rendering the entire Transformers 2 movie on a normal home pc would take 16,000 years.

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OodWR TIL about Flordelis, a Brazilian pastor and congresswoman. She married one of her 51 adopted children in 1998 and then in 2020 was charged with orchestrating his murder, at the hands of two more of her adopted children
4k9Kg TIL Alaska missed 11 days during the transfer from the Russian Empire to the US in 1867, since they switched from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar
goDW TIL people wear pants because of horses. Mounted armies wearing pants were more effective than those wearing robes
jeja TIL at 90 years old Jeanne Calment sold her apartment and the buyer agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died - she lived to 122!
loGBa TIL Annually around 40 million Olive Ridley hatchlings are born in Odisha coast of India and they are monitored around the year from adults laying eggs to birth. Fishing and commercial activities are banned around particular coast. One of the most successful conservation story.