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TIL the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs (~10 km wide) was no where near the biggest to ever hit Earth — earlier impacts were caused by asteroids 20–25 km across, like the one that made the Vredefort crater

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XBnD TIL Warren Buffett made enough money selling Coke Bottles and magazines door to door to buy a 40 acre farm at the age of 14.
epwGL TIL about "The Pearl": An underground pornographic magazine issued monthly between 1879 and 1880. Its contents were three serial erotic tales simultaneously, devoted to sex in high society, incest, and flagellation. It was shut down by the British authorities for violating standards of obscenity.
kJGBB TIL that in the 1948 California Supreme Court case Perez v. Sharp, the County of Los Angeles included quotations from Mein Kampf in arguing that the state’s ban on interracial marriage should be upheld.
KAaJ TIL that the CIA operation to invade Cuba and take down Castro was called “Operation Castration”
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