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TIL To get a car stuck in sand out, dont dig the sand, pour about a litre of water around stuck tires, wait a minute and the wet sand will add enough traction to get out with ease. No pushing or digging and very little effort. Extremely helpful at the beach or desert

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lo5w1 TIL The tail of a feathered dinosaur has been found perfectly preserved in amber from Myanmar. The one-of-a-kind discovery helps put flesh on the bones of these extinct creatures, opening a new window on the biology of a group that dominated Earth for more than 160 million years.
NXy11 TIL that infamous Wild West outlaw William Bonney aka “Billy the Kid” may have survived until 1950 under the alias Oliver “Brushy Bill” Roberts. On the night The Kid was supposedly shot and killed by sheriff Pat Garrett, one of his deputies exclaimed “You shot the wrong man!”.
5E59 TIL president James Madison was only 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed less than 100 pounds.
QNyaa TIL that, to get people to read them, authors of light novels put the story's synopsis into the title itself. So there are titles like "The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat"
WkAYd TIL of Mostelaria, or "the haunted house": a Roman comedy play by Plautus, about a young man who trashes his father's house in a party while the latter in on a business trip and invents a story about the house been haunted in order to delay his father when he unexpectedly returns