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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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4jma TIL that in the 1900’s Margarine was considered contraband in 30 U.S. states, and some states felt so strongly about this substance that they required it to be dyed pink in order to make it look less appetizing.
KYEp4 TIL about Zealanda (or ‘Tasmantis’), which was once the eighth continent.
Y7E9P TIL The US Marine Corps and the Dept of the Navy allowed thousands of people to drink contaminated water at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base Camp over the course of decades.
gO1A TIL Legalizing direct-to-consumer car sales would reduce the average price by over $3000
nQW9 TIL that art historians dismissed some doodles in da Vinci’s notebooks as “irrelevant.” But in 2016 a Cambridge professor found that one page of these scribbles actually contained the first written records demonstrating the laws of friction