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TIL: Flowers didn’t exist until dinosaurs and mammals were already roaming the earth.

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9EnG TIL Walt Disney’s last words were “Kurt Russell.”
d8xaj TIL The 1877 novel Black Beauty was a watershed for the recognition of animal cruelty, especially horses, as an important issue. It spurred reforms in both the US and England, leading to the abolishment of the “bearing rein”- a cruel Victorian device that severely damaged the necks of horses.
ANk5B TIL Shaquille O'Neal is also a DJ under the name 'DJ Diesel', he got into the dance music scene in 2014-2015
VAG TIL Dave Chappelle’s grandfather really was in the Tuskegee experiments.
LQjRV TIL that the record for most lunar orbits is shared by Apollo 17 astronaut Ronald Evans and five mice brought on the mission. The mice, named Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey, were euthanized and dissected upon their return.