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TIL the difference in time between when the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the difference in time between Tyrannosaurus Rex and now

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jWPE TIL that when Carrie Fisher was asked wether she knew that Star Wars would be as successfull as it turned out to be she said “Yes, I knew. We all knew. The only one who didn’t know was George. We kept it from him because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression.”
neAeb TIL One study found that job seekers are more likely to be hired if they wear glasses to their interview. Several studies have shown that people who wear glasses are typically perceived as more intelligent, more competent, and more industrious than those without spectacles
1vaW TIL it only takes a gallon of fuel to move 1 ton of material 500 miles by rail.
ANglo TIL the word Dollar is the Anglicized version of the German word Thaler, meaning from the valley. Thaler is the shortened version of Joachimthalers, a mine town in the Czech Republic (formerly Bohemia) where silver coins were minted.
PX9n TIL That violins have f-shaped holes because it makes them more acoustically powerful than their ancestors, which had holes shaped liked a circle.