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TIL The Epic of Gilgamesh was lost to history. Archaeologists didn't rediscover the text until the 19th century

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xV1JD TIL a lawyer was hired for a traffic case. Instead of sitting his client at the witness table, he dressed another lawyer to look like the client. When the only witness (a policeman) was asked to point to the defendant in the room he pointed to the fake client. The real defendant was found not guilty
4XVKX TIL 358 millions years ago Earth was in the Carboniferous period, during that age oxygen levels were 15 percent higher than today thanks to the abundance of plant life, which meant scorpions were the size of dogs, a caterpillar was the size of an anaconda and dragonfly's were size of eagles
54bP TIL if you went to one Australian beach a day that it would take 29 years to visit all of them.
PY9Ne TIL that, because of similar names, Slovenian and Slovakian staff meets once a months to exchange wrong delivered mail.
LKnr TIL that the deadliest earthquake in recorded history struck Shensi province in China in 1556, killing about 830,000 people.