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

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lomRA TIL: in 1963 Liberace suffered kidney failure from exposure to dry cleaning fluids used to clean his many elaborate costumes
bRb7 TIL of Witold Pilecki, a Polish officer during WWII who volunteered to go to Auschwitz to document the genocide and fought in the Warsaw Uprising only to be executed by the Soviets
n19B TIL of Kremlin advisor Aleksandr Dugin’s 1997 book “Foundations of Geopolitics”, in which he calls for the annexation of Ukraine by Russia, for the UK to be cut off from Europe, and for the promotion of political chaos and isolationist tendencies in the USA
D1doP TIL of Pablo EskoBear, a 175lb black bear that died from a drug overdose after he consumed about half his own weight in cocaine. The bear was later stuffed and is now a tourist attraction in Kentucky. He currently has a note around his neck warning: "Don't do drugs"
rNwBo TIL that in 2003, director David O. Russell put Christopher Nolan in a headlock after learning that Jude Law, who he wanted to cast, had decided to work with Nolan instead.