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TIL the entire earth used to covered in ice, even the equator

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R71Ga TIL that tin has ten natural isotopes, the most of any element
We1Y TIL on July 27, 2007, 2 News Helicopters collided while live on the air and covering a police chase. Despite the best efforts of the stations, one of the audio feeds from a helicopter continued to broadcast the screams of a crew as they plummeted to their deaths.
epKbE TIL Unobtainium was not first referenced in Avatar (2009), actually dates back to the 1950s as a term for "unusual or costly materials"
rRnKe TIL the witching hour is the time of night between 3 - 4 a.m. in western christianity considered to be when supernatural events are at their most powerful and frequent due to the absence of prayers
Rvna TIL no one knows what Jesus looked like; “The artistic depictions down the ages have total and complete variation, which indicates that nobody did a portrait of Jesus or wrote down a description, it’s all been forgotten.”