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Zoos and Science Museums are giving species 'Amazon Reviews' on Twitter.

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Y8ar TIL when trees evolved, it took 60 mil. years for fungi to evolve the ability to break down lignin. Trees fell over and didn’t decompose, storing vast amounts of carbon, resulting in an oxygen-rich atmosphere that favored enormous insects; burning in massive fires; and producing our stores of coal.
W7Oe9 TIL that Tyrannosaurus lived 66 million years ago. Stegosaurus lived 145 million years ago. We are closer in time to Tyrannosaurus than Tyrannosaurus is to Stegosaurus.
nkVW TIL that in American Psycho, every single one of their perfect business cards misspells ‘acquisitions’ as 'aquisitions’
1aaEV Microchips and dip.
P1W7n TIL that although the Rhodesian Government eventually lost the Bush War, they killed 10,000 of Robert Mugabe’s forces while only losing 1,361 of their own.