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TIL The largest piece of fossilised dinosaur poo discovered is over 30cm long and over two litres in volume. It’s believed to be from a T-Rex.

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kJ811 TIL The thick white rind on the outside of a wheel of brie cheese is actually mold, Penicillum candidum
nPpB TIL a ‘Norman Door’ is a door that requires signage to tell users whether they should push or pull to open it, since that core function is not visibly obvious from the design
woG06 TIL that during the battle for the village of Raseiniai, which took place 23–27 June 1941, a lone KV tank held off the advance of the 6th Panzer Division for a single day, before being overrun and knocked out on the morning of June 25.
j6Glj TIL that it used to be illegal to own gold as a private citizen. It was enacted in 1933 under the belief that the hoarding of gold was worsening the Great Depression. It was repealed in 1974.
b9Z1Z TIL that Colorado has 697 sides and is really not a rectangle