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TIL That This picture, competing for the Nikon 2020 Photomicrography Prize, shows a 20 million year old winged ant trapped in amber resin captured by Dr. Yuan Ji

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re1y TIL that the music video for the song “Buddy Holly” by Weezer was included with Windows 95.
MxPK TIL: China used RPGs to disperse rain clouds during the olympics
AN9Yw TIL the average American now consumes roughly the same amount of sugar in a day that the average Palaeolithic human consumed in a year (~20 teaspoons)
N74WJ TIL in 1842, the British had an army of 16,000 men retreating from Kabul, Afghanistan. Only one man survived after losing some of his skull, protected by a magazine stored in his hat. He arrived in Jalalabad and when asked where the army was, he stated "I am the army".