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TIL that a T-Rex is historically closer to an ipod than to Stegosaurus.

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epWA4 TIL that the opossum gives birth to 16-20 (often more) babies, only 12-13 days after mating – the shortest gestation period of any North American mammal.
l57N TIL: In 2007, British Pop singer Lily Allen released a song about her lazy brother Alfie, who sits in his room all day watching TV and smoking weed. In the song she told him to grow up and get a job. Alfie Allen is probably better known today as the actor who plays Theon Greyjoy on Game of Thrones.
jQoE TIL Peter Dinklage is the only American cast member in Game of Thrones with a leading role.
R7e67 TIL John Everett Millais had a model sit in a bathtub for five months for his painting depicting Lady Ophelia's death by drowning.
nePkW TIL of Mandeville's 1714 story of a thriving bee community that decides to live by virtue instead of self-interest - and collapses. Adam Smith incorporated this idea of 'private vice, public good' into his work, and today its a foundational principle of Capitalism and Western Civilisation.