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TIL the placenta evolved from an ancient virus.

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Bgabb TIL of the 50 tallest statues in the world, 33 depict a buddha or bodhisattva.
egK5 TIL that Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall” is cyclical, with the phrase “Isn’t this where…“ ”…we came in?” split in half between the first and last song. When the two songs are spliced together, the complete phrase “Isn’t this where we came in?” forms, proposing that Pink’s story repeats itself
4kRK6 TIL during five periods since 1990, Delaware has been the only U.S. state without any scheduled commercial airline flights. The periods were 1993 through 1998, 2000 to 2006, April 2008 to June 30, 2013, April 2015 and February 2021, and most recently from June 2022 to January 2023.
Ydx7 TIL from 1993 to 2008, the same DNA was discovered at 40 different crime scenes in Europe, leading to the investigation of the “Phantom of Heilbronn”, which turned out to be a woman working in a cotton swab factory who inadvertently contaminated the swabs with her own DNA.
W7eYd TIL during a 2020 pre-game news conference, soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo moved two bottle of Coca-Cola from his desk and said "drink water" in Portuguese. Coca-Cola temporarily lost $4 billion in market value.