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TIL paleontologists found a 99-million year old tick entombed in amber and grasping the feather of a dinosaur

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Z8YyG TIL that in the 1650s the Holy Roman Emperor allowed the Lutherans to build three churches. Petulantly, he stipulated that the churches be constructed in one year using only wood, straw and loam. In response, the Lutherans constructed the ornate Churches of Peace, now UNESCO world heritage sites.
LkAWm TIL there's a place in the coast of Namibia called "Skeleton coast" and nicknamed "The Land God made in Anger" and "The Gates of Hell", that holds the remains of over a thousand shipwrecks and, by land, can only be left by crossing hundreds of miles of marshes and desert.
4kNng TIL the NOAA gives financial awards to shipping lines who reduce vessel speed to protect whales
ANEB TIL that you can completely disrupt a person’s speech and make them shut up simply by making them hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay.
KxDR TIL that the directors for Guardians of the Galaxy wrote a script with actual dialogue for Vin Diesel so that he would know what inflections to give when he said his lines as “I am Groot”.