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TIL Bacon was invented in Ancient China

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nWg8W TIL that Australia had an apex marsupial predator called Thylacoleo, or the Marsupial Lion! It only became extinct 46k years ago. This thing was nuts, lb for lb the strongest bite force of any mammal extinct or extant, a semi opposable thumb, molars like razor blades and as big as a lioness.
O8Rg TIL Gandhi refused to let doctors administer penicillin to his wife, which led to her death, yet accepted quinine to save his life…
6Oa7 TIL of Lafayette, a Frenchman from the revolutionary war who later toasted “to the perpetual union of the united states. it has always served us in times of storm. one day it will save the world”. American troops sent to France in world war 1 visited the grave and said “Lafayette, we are here”
mxExo TIL that the man who played Captain Byron Hadley (the brutal lead prison guard from "The Shawshank Redemption") is the also the voice of Mr. Krabbs.
gMxWW TIL Despite having different names asteroids - meteors and meteorites are all the same thing - just in different places. When it's still in space it's called an asteroid - when it enters Earth's atmosphere it's called a meteor and if it actually hits the surface it is a meteorite