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TIL That chronologically, humanity is closer in time to the T-Rex (68-66 mya), than the T-Rex was to the Stegosaurus (155-145 mya).

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EwBp TIL that Colombians are obsessed with plastic surgery. The Latin American country did 375,000 cosmetic procedures in 2015 for both natives and foreigners, #2 per capita to South Korea. Thousands of Colombian teenage girls save money for years to have their first surgery at the legal age of 18.
dDvKE TIL that in the 18th and 19th centuries, cemeteries in Britain used "cemetery guns" to prevent grave robbing. These guns were set up near graves and were designed to discharge when triggered by a tripwire, stopping "body snatchers" who stole corpses to sell to medical schools.
GAyE7 TIL: Ben Franklin was a slaveowner for much of his life, but after a friend took him to visit a school for black children, he wrote that African ignorance was not inherently natural but came from lack of education, slavery and negative environments. He also petitioned Congress to end slavery.
vlEB TIL in a private cemetery in Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
6Xxm TIL Chewbacca had a nephew named Lowbacca, who was a Jedi and used a bronze-colored light saber.