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TIL that humans are the only species prone to heart attacks

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bvZa TIL Richard Owen (who created the word Dinosaur) exploited his crippled peer Gideon Mantell, by claiming ownership and renaming his discoveries. After Mantels suicide, Owen wrote his obituary calling Mantell a mediocre Scientist. He then had Mantells spine removed, pickled, and stored.
RMp4 TIL there’s Christian communities in India who allegedly exists since the first century A.D, prior to most parts of Europe.
0dvEj TIL following the destruction of the Iberian city of Illiturgis by Publius Cornelius Scipio in 206 BC, the people from the neighbouring city of Astapa–knowing they faced a similar fate, decided to burn the city with all of its treasures and then kill themselves.
YQpW TIL US taxpayers fund the overwhelming majority of addiction research in the world.
jN4Nn TIL the monstrous cyclops from Homer's "The Odyssey" loved cheese - and may have even "invented" feta.