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TIL 1/3 of classified dinosaurs may have never existed.

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x6mPk TIL that in a 2024 study from the University of Illinois, 2,500 participants were asked to categorize 12 different statements as being either facts or opinions, and nearly half (45.7%) of the subjects performed no better than a coin flip.
8e8JP TIL School clocks were initially synchronized by pneumatic tubes that pushed the hands simultaneously in every classroom, from 1877 into the 1920s, when electric impulses were used. Factories and office buildings quickly switched to these systems as well.
Me6vb TIL that Pink Floyd musician David Gilmour CBE auctioned his guitars for charity. His Black Strat sold for $3,975,000 making it the most expensive guitar sold at auction. Proceeds of the auction, which raised $21,490,750, were donated to ClientEarth environmental charity.
m1ZQx TIL there is a Mount Kennedy in Canada, named after the president JFK a year after his assassination. Canada selected it because it was close to the US-Canada border and it serves as a symbol of the two nations' friendship.
eDP6 TIL in 1355 in Oxford, England a dispute between two students and a Pub Landlord over the quality of their pints resulted in a two day riot, which left 63 scholars and 30 locals dead.