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TIL That dinosaur erotica exists (with actual titles like “Ravished By The Triceratops”) and is apparently pretty profitable

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lnba TIL: A Detroit musician living in poverty didn’t know that in South Africa, he was more popular than the Beatles.
6EyYX TIL that the northern lights shows us why there is life on Earth.
OGDNY TIL About the Guangxi Massacre (1967-1976) in which an estimated 100,000-150,000 people were killed, which included acts of massive cannibalism, with 421 identified individuals eaten.
8eena TIL that Countess Magdalena "Nina" von Stauffenberg, wife of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (key player in the 20 July plot against Hitler in 1944) was a third cousin to the Duke of Edinburg, the late Prince Philip. She died in 2006.
PYZ9E TIL That the number zero was invented in India more than a thousand years ago