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TIL A permanent move to daylight saving time would prevent 2,054 human injuries, 33 human deaths, and $1.19 billion in damages each year.

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7E8p TIL while archeologists excavated the ruins of King Herod’s palace on Mt. Masada, near the Dead Sea, a 2000 year old seed was found from an extinct Date Palm species. A botanist planted the seed and it miraculously sprouted, becoming the oldest verified human-assisted seed germination in history.
Mjbm TIL that the tallest, pre-modern statue in the world, the Leshan Giant Buddha, was built to calm the turbulent waters of a river, and the amount of stone deposited into the water from carving it, made the river safer for ships.
JEyV TIL that Paul McCartney was mugged at knifepoint in Lagos, Nigeria. The thieves made off with all the demo tapes for the album Band on the Run, that he was down there to make. McCartney had to re-create the demos entirely from memory before the album could be made.
ANGY7 TIL the King Cobra is not a cobra. It is the sole species of its genus and happens to look a lot like a cobra.
J15B TIL that a Soviet NKVD executioner personally killed 7000 Polish officers over a 28 day period with a pistol, working 10 hours per night and averaging a person every three minutes. He personally accounted for almost one third of the Katyn Massacre.