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TIL about the "The Boring Billion", a time period from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago characterized by more or less tectonic stability, climatic stasis, and stalled biological evolution.(en.wikipedia.org)

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But then the cambrian explosion happened, and trilobites were excited about the planet, so much so that they spread all across the globe.

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