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TIL that two billion years ago, there were 17 stable nuclear reactors underneath central Africa

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06rj TIL that the music video for “Runaway Train” helped bring 26 missing children home
awkJ TIL in 2011 the Florida Marlins set the record for lowest attendance at a MLB game at 347 fans
Xgd6 TIL that according to John Deere farmers don’t own the tractors but merely have “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle” and claims it is illegal to access to the diagnostic software because someone might pirate music from the system.
xDrb TIL a cat named Tibbles once started bringing dead birds to a lighthouse that were discovered to be a new species, the Stephens Island wren. They went extinct shortly after and Tibbles the cat was accused of being the only single living creature to eradicate a species.
J115k TIL that a German Cinema offered free tickets to the premiere of Schindler's List to members of the right-wing AfD party in Germany