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TIL Charlemagne may have been killed by his tablecloth. He liked it because he could throw it into a fire to clean it. He died of pleurisy, one of the effects of asbestos exposure.
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TIL that pterodactyls are not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are members of the group Dinosauria which pterodactyls are not. Pterodactyls belong to the group Pterosauria.
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TIL some of the Dungeons and Dragons monsters, such as the owlbear or the bulette, were inspired by unrealistic weird-looking creatures that the game's creator found in a "Prehistoric Animals" toy set.