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TIL there is a patron saint of the Internet

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D1eMV TIL the largest surviving relative of the Tyrannosaurus is the common Ostrich.
x6ko5 TIL TLC is still the best-selling American Girl Group of All Time and second all time behind The Spice Girls
Z8o8Y TIL that the cover for Death Grip’s debut mixtape Exmilitary, is a picture of a man from an old National Geographic magazine that drummer Zach Hill kept around as a symbol of power, years later finding that it fit the mixtape perfectly and became the official cover in 2011
p8DnN TIL that a Brontosaurus skull has never been found.
lo7OA Yes, but no more than listening to Justin Bieber. The misconception that there's something unique about Mozart's ability to increase brainpower began in 1993, with a paper in Nature. Neurobiologists Gordon Shaw, Frances Rauscher and Katherine Ky of the University of California at Irvine found that students who listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata demonstrated a temporary increase in spatial-temporal reasoning, as measured by an IQ test.