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TIL Non-avian Dinosaurs would have not gone extinct if the asteroid hit anywhere else but the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.

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D1xOJ TIL that electronics sniffing dogs are a real thing. They can even sniff out tiny microSD cards that are less than a millimeter thick.
6k5X TIL Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were US citizens who were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union in 1953.
6EBvX TIL that Iron Giant book ends with the Iron Giant defeating a "Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon" the size of Australia in a contest of pain endurance. The Iron Giant then commands the alien monster to bring peace to humanity by flying around the Earth singing the "music of the spheres".
oBA0r TIL the tabletop game Subbuteo was so called because it’s creator, Peter Adolph, was denied the trademark to call it ‘Hobby’ and so use the neo-classical term for the Eurasian Hobby bird (Falco Subbuteo).
gMx8L TIL Eddie Murphy is the only person to host Saturday Night Live while still a member of the cast, filling the role at the last minute when the scheduled host (his 48 Hours co-star Nick Nolte) became ill.