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TIL that dinosaurs did not “roar,” but cooed like birds

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MA9b TIL A man in 1938 agreed to have himself monitored on a electrocardiogram as he was executed to see the effects on his heart.
Z8OLQ TIL that H G Wells’ War of the Worlds was inspired by how the immeasurably technologically superior English massacred the natives of Tasmania, Australia in taking that land.
pjMG TIL that the French praised ‘Ratatouille’ for perfectly recreating the environment of a restaurant kitchen. One chef said, “When Colette teaches the young cook how you cut onions, how you cook vegetables in a pan, how you season everything — that’s it, that’s how we do it!”
R5MA4 TIL: Bees can turn any worker bee egg into a new queen by feeding it a special diet. If the current queen dies or isn’t doing her job the hive can literally just make a new queen to replace her.
oR4xW TIL Crush Syndrome happens when the human body experiences severe skeletal muscle trauma under constant pressure for a long time resulting in shock and kidney failure; an example is a human trapped under a building in an earthquake.