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TIL: Some of the sounds of the dinosaurs in Jurassic World were made from the slowed down version of tortoises having sex.

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ne1Qo TIL about "the Singing Revolution" which happened between 1987 and 1991 in Estonia when people gathered in public places to sing national songs together despite the ban. This and the "human chain" from Estonia to Lithuania were among the events that led to the independence of Baltic states.
Z8OLQ TIL that H G Wells’ War of the Worlds was inspired by how the immeasurably technologically superior English massacred the natives of Tasmania, Australia in taking that land.
E1PdX TIL Saturation divers when not diving at extreme depths can spend almost two months at a time inside a tiny pressurized environment on board a ship and can only breathe a mixture of helium and oxygen as normal air will kill them. They do this to stay acclimated to the intense pressures they work in.
yvRX TIL that North Korea is following 3 accounts on Twitter. Two are propaganda and the other is a 25 year old American from Texas. Nobody knows why.
dDrJ7 TIL that it is not known exactly when the University of Oxford was founded