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TIL at the time of the dinosaurs, Earth completed one rotation in about 23 hours.

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Me0w8 TIL Van Halen's guitarist, Eddie Van Halen practiced playing drums first, while his brother Alex took up the guitar. However, when Eddie saw Alex mastered the drum solo in the song "Wipe Out", they decided to switch roles. Eddie went on to be one of the greatest rock guitarists in the world.
5Nm8 TIL when talking about how she had managed to become a model, Calvin Klein model Cameron Russell said: “The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery”
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