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TIL flowers evolved after mammals.

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a8AWb TIL Rubies and Sapphire are Gem Varieties of the Same Mineral Corundum.
9wxGQ TIL that Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro correctly speculated about the existence of germs thousands of years prior to the discovery of germ theory.
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