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TIL about Archaeoindris, a lemur that could reach the size of a gorilla and who was still around when the first humans arrived to Madagascar

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OOJe TIL A man changed his name by deed poll to match his misprinted airline ticket as it was cheaper than paying the airline’s admin fee.
gp8b TIL that it has been theorised that the Pillars of Creation, made famous by the Hubble Telescope, may no longer exist. They may have been destroyed by a supernova shockwave around 6000 years ago, but the light from this hasn’t reached Earth, so we won’t see it for another 1000 years.
vDPL TIL there are a total of 3,863,484 unique Lego bricks in ‘The Lego Movie’. Recreating the movie would require 15,080,330 Lego pieces, with 183 different types of Lego minifigures.
jNLdp TIL “Für Elise”, one of Beethoven’s best known masterpieces, was not discovered and published until 40 years after his funeral.
XEowr TIL that in 2012 scientists at the Hadron Collider formed a quark-gluon plasma and subsequently recorded the hottest temperature created by man, 5.5 trillion degrees celsius.