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TIL Global shark populations were wiped out by up to 90 per cent around 19 million years ago, even though there were no signs of sudden climatic or environmental changes

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wLZko TIL the espresso martini was invented when a young woman asked a famous London bartender for a drink that would "Wake me up, then fuck me up."
61M8 TIL That child support in Canada is based on past income not current income. People can be ordered by the court to pay more money than they make or have ever made. If Dave Foley returns to Canada he will go to jail because the child support payments are now literally impossible.
QJmXE TIL Ex-UFC fighter and podcaster Brendan Schaub has the worst rated (1.6/10) comedy special in history
6NL7 TIL Harvard University has it’s own food chart that doesn’t include dairy or meat as categories
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