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TIL that woolly mammoths were still alive when the Great Pyramid of Giza was being built.

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l7d97 TIL that a "fracture" and a "break" are the same thing. There is no medical difference between the two. Doctors use "fracture" because it describes the injury precisely (stress fracture, greenstick fracture, comminuted fracture, etc.), but a fractured bone is a broken bone.
69WA7 TIL: in 2001, an American couple actually got married in a submersible on the bow of Titanic’s wreck in an attempt to echo the famous scene from the film
JYWZj TIL mud dauber wasps have caused 223 deaths, via plane crashes.
0d0xj TIL of Pedro Filho, a vigilante serial killer who is the inspiration behind Dexter Morgan in the Books and Series
0dk11 Today I learned that serial killer Amy Archer-Gilligan, who ran a nursing home and murdered some of the residents, and one of her husbands, was the inspiration behind the Cary Grant movie, "Arsenic and Old Lace."