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TIL that Wall Street gets it's name from the wall built around the Dutch colony in New York

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5V8Kn TIL that Velociraptors were not just feathered, but that quill knobs have been found on their bones, an anatomical feature found today in all flying birds but absent in most flightless birds.
ppyZ TIL Lego has actual “master builders” (aka Certified Professionals). There are only 13 of them and they aren’t accepting any further candidates.
ZpLLY TIL It’s Possible for a Human to Hold Its Breath for Over 29 Minutes
R51N8 TIL about Cleopatra Selene II (40 BCE - ca. 5 BCE), the only daughter of Greek Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII and Roman Triumvir Mark Antony, who as Queen of Mauretania was a powerful female ruler until her untimely death during a lunar eclipse at the age of 35.
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