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TIL Archaeologists found the other half of the Mayan calendar in May

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wo8RY TIL A ‘lost world’ of early microbes thrived one billion years ago which give clues to a lost world of primitive microbes that once may have populated the world’s oceans and may have eventually given rise to modern plants and animals.
6E4DY TIL J.R.R Tolkien's first identifiable Middle-Earth character was a Half-Elven Mariner named "Eärendil", who came from his poem "The Last Voyage of Eärendil" written in 1914.
vBvB TIL that the cost of America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, have cost $6 trillion, or $75,000 for every American household.
8evdL TIL the theory of atoms comes from ancient Greece in the 5th century BCE. Democritus of Abdera, named the building blocks of matter atomos, meaning literally “indivisible,” about 430 BCE.
QNDBe TIL that the Chinese mile is much shorter than the standard mile used everywhere else (esp. US and UK)