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TIL Two-Thirds of Soviet Men Born in 1923 Didn’t Survive the War

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NX4lb TIL The Megalosaurus was so popular in the 19th century that Charles Dickens included it in one of his novels.
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Y7eR7 TIL Saturn’s moon Titan is the only other world in the solar system other than Earth that has weather and liquid on the surface
Gpb7 TIL that in movie credits “&” and “and” mean two different things. If two writers’ names are joined with “&” then they collaborated on the script, but if they’re joined with “and” then they worked on it at different times.
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