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TIL that Dragonflies are older than dinosaurs and used to have a wingspan of 2.5 feet

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QdZM TIL that in China in 757 during the siege of Suiyang, while they were short of food, the general Zhang Xun ordered his soldiers to kill the civilians in order to feed themselves. At the end of the siege ten months later, 20,000 to 30,000 people were eaten and only 400 were left.