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TIL the scientific name of Llamas is ‘Lama Glama’

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WkjWA TIL, if we were to compress the entire history of the earth into a single year, modern humans would only appear on December the 31st at around 11:36 PM.
nrWb TIL that the child that runs towards Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee) at the end of LOTR: the Return of the King is his own daughter irl.
Z8WpB TIL In Italy there is a supervolcano called Campi Flegrei. If it explode the entire Campania will be erased,the world temperature will be lower of several degrees,the ashes coming from the volcano will block the sunrays in the whole world leading to the death of many plants and animals
5V109 TIL about Cougar Annie, who "birthed 11 children, outlived four husbands and became known for allegedly shooting and killing about 70 cougars in her lifetime" after moving to the west coast of Vancouver Island.
BrD7D TIL in 1995 a policy known as “the Wall" was created. It discouraged info sharing between the CIA and FBI, playing a critical role in the inability to stop 9/11. It got so bad agents played a CD with Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" into the phone as they were told their access was denied.