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TIL the "Byzantine empire" and "Eastern Roman Empire" were terms created after the reign of this empire had ended, its citizens referred to themselves as just "Romans"

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nemkd TIL 80% of the world's vanilla is grown on a single island
D16jj TIL in 1490, the Ming Dynasty reportedly experienced a meteor shower so severe it resulted in a “rain of rocks”, killing several tens of thousands of people, according to some official sources
PYZ6O TIL that dimetrodon was never a dinosaur, but was actually more closely related to mammals. Also that pop culture depictions of dimetrodon are super inaccurate.
xEP1 TIL there is a version of the pilot episode of “Archer” where he is entirely replaced by a velociraptor
J17Q TIL: There is an area of the universe a billion light years across that has virtually nothing in it, not even dark matter.