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TIL that in 1993, the Pantai Remis landslide occurred in Malaysia, where a massive tin mine collapsed, generating what one academic has described as “the best landslide video ever seen” despite the bad resolution.

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MeaNa TIL that Jim Cramer worked at a hedge fund and openly explained how to illegally manipulate the stock market. He is now the most familiar face on TV for financial advice.
M5Za TIL in 2012 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation decided that an episode of the animated children’s series Peppa Pig was inappropriate for an Australian audience because it said that spiders were not to be feared.
8QoG TIL that “sugar highs” don’t actually exist; glucose causes the release of serotonin, which actually causes you to calm down. Children are hyperactive at parties and holidays because of the psychological situation, not the physiological effect of sugar.
VB5gp TIL Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler are reputed to have suffered from ailurophobia - the fear of cats.
69XBX TIL this is P52, a fragment of the Gospel of John written in Greek. The exact date is debated, but the consensus is that it was written around the year AD 125, implying that the Gospels were written down earlier during the first century, when the Apostles still preached (Translation down below)