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TIL that, 49 million years ago, moss rapidly transformed the earth from 'greenhouse earth' to 'icehouse earth' that we live in today - changing c02 from 3,000 ppm to 500 ppm.

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RKJl TIL when US imposed sanctions against Russia’s space program the Russian Deputy Prime Minister tweeted “After reviewing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest that the United States deliver their astronauts to the ISS using a trampoline”
p04G TIL some languages have a distinct style of speech that is only used when the speaker is in the presence of their mother in law, called “avoidance speech”.
0wAnj TIL in 1981 a man named Roger Fischer had an idea for a volunteer to have ICBM launch codes put in their chest cavity. In the event of an emergency, the volunteer would carry a knife to be killed with. It was meant to force the personal killing of one man to start the impersonal killing of millions.
Lkw1r TIL that the inflatable sex doll may have been invented by Adolf Hitler, but the project failed because soldiers were too embarrassed to carry them.
aPdo TIL Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca from Star Wars) had to be accompanied by people wearing brightly-colored vests while filming Endor scenes in the Pacific Northwest, as to not be mistaken for Bigfoot and shot.