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TIL Based on fossil evidence, the longest crocodile ever to live was a Sarcosuchus imperator, who measured 40 feet long and weighed 17,600 pounds.

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0wAGy TIL that in 1905 JP Morgan hired a young black woman as his personal librarian. Over the next 40 years she established his library as one of the premier collections of rare books and manuscripts in the world.
loekV TIL about Scott and Helen Nearing, who bought acreage in the Great Depression and lived off the land until a ski resort saw their property value soar to $6 million. Deciding they'd done nothing to justify the increase, they donated the land to use as a forest, moved to Maine, and lived to age 99.
OAJL TIL The Border Collie is the world smartest dog with one individual reported to be able to respond to 1,022 individual words
Opyg TIL that in May of 1993, a Japanese Doomsday cult situated deep in the Australian Outback reportedly set off some form of an explosion that registered as seismic activity.
epDQL TIL that during World War 2, aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and general Charles De Gaulle despised each other, causing his works to be banned in both Free France and Vichy France. As a result, The Little Prince was first published in the United States, and only was published in France after WW2.