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TIL: A day on Earth was 6 hours long 4.5 Billion years ago.

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jN7GQ TIL: An Ethiopian farmer boy was sold into slavery, earned his freedom and became the defacto ruler of Central India in the 1600s
KYNm6 TIL Norway knighted a king penguin, Sir Nils Olav III, colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard and baron of the Bouvet Islands
xVW4w TIL legend has it that Franciscan padres who founded California’s missions brought mustard seeds from Spain and scattered them along the road that connects their missions. Since mustard is an invasive species, it created a trail of bright yellow flowers that the padres used to mark the road.
Vp7Q TIL Hans Larsson is a scientist who is trying to reactivate dormant dinosaur traits that linger in unexpressed bird genes. So far, he has managed to create chicken embryos that have teeth and long reptilian tails.
dD5bK TIL of a Victorian-era English recipe for a toast sandwich: Two pieces of bread with a slice of toast in between. Modern reviews have ranged from calling it “just not that good” to “an extravagance of blandness.”