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Today I learned Three Stooges made a hairspray commercial!

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JYPLv TIL China has planted over 500 thousand square kilometers of forest since 1978 to combat the expansion of the Gobi Desert making it the largest forest plantation in the world. It’s expected to reach 4,500 km by 2050
LkGV TIL Freddie Mercury’s album “Mr Bad Guy” was dedicated “to my cat Jerry- also Tom, Oscar and Tiffany, and all the cat lovers across the universe- screw everybody else”
awvJM TIL Gladiators didn't normally fight to the death, as they were too expensive to prepare and maintain, making it to risky of a business to sustain. For there to be a fight to the death, a sponsor would have to pay extra and also compensate the lanista for the lost gladiator.
GN94 TIL The asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs was powerful enough to send Earth rocks to Mars and even Europa. As a result, if we ever find life on those worlds it may actually have originated on our own planet.
pov8 TIL that a clock at a university in New Zealand that runs on changes in air pressure and temperature has been running nearly continuously without being wound since its construction in 1864, stopping only when it needed to be cleaned or moved.