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TIL that the Burj Khalifa was built by one of Samsung's companies (Samsung C&T Corporation)

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jXEa TIL it is predicated that all multicellular life on Earth will die out from a lack of CO2 in the atmosphere in 800 million years, 6.59 billion years before the earth is engulfed by the red giant sun
Zpa9R TIL that emotional tears have more protein than other types of tears, making it runs slower on your cheeks to convey your emotion.
loKP5 TIL that, one of the few references that Leonardo Da Vinci made to sexuality in his notebooks states: "The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions."
4XXRo TIL: Hella, from Norse mythology, is where we get the word Hell from.
0wOgM TIL in 2019 researchers studied DNA samples from Loch Ness and ruled out the presence of the large animals that are commonly said to have been behind the monster sightings. However, the researchers did not discount the possibility that the sighted animal was a big eel.