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TIL: Leonardo DaVinci was the first person to explain why the sky is blue

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X0Br8 TIL about the Iguanodon featured on the Maidstone coat of arms, honouring the discovery of its fossilised remains in 1834 at Bensted’s Quarry, which helped reaffirm the hypothesis that such remains belonged to prehistoric animals.
8e7eX TIL dakimakura, body length pillows in Japan, can now talk to you
xMO7 TIL there is still a wild jaguar living in southern Arizona.
rREvo TIL the counting money sound in an ATM is completely fake, and only designed to reassure customers that the machine is doing something
V9AD TIL: in 2015 more Americans died of prescription opiate overdoses than were murdered or died in traffic accidents.