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TIL: 250 million years ago coal fires may have caused “The Great Dying” aka the Permian Extinction, in which 80% of life on land and 90% of sea life were killed

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oM9A TIL dogs have areas of their brain that process faces, just like humans
R7yO7 TIL that in the German concentration camp Sachsenhausen prisoners were forced to run marathons all day long to test shoes for the army and private shoe manufacturers. Those who stopped running due to exhaustion were shot.
80g4 TIL that in 1968, science fiction writer and atheist Isaac Asimov published “Asimov’s guide to the Bible”. Asimov treats the secular aspects of the Bible with intellectual instead of theological commentary.
8e6aP TIL in 1590, starving Parisians ground human bones into bread
rNAo TIL that the only dog to be registered in the Royal Navy, to prevent him from being euthanized, was named “Just Nuisance”, his trade listed as “Bonecrusher”, and his religion as “Scrounger.”