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

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kY0E TIL Hugo Boss was not only a supplier of uniforms to the Nazis, but was the designer of the black uniforms worn by the SS
8a4LZ TIL The father of modern medicine (hyprocartes) prescribed fasting as a cure for many illness even 3000 years ago, even back then they understood the power of the body to heal itself whereas now if it can't be solved with a prescription pill then it can't be diagnosed
xVdB5 TIL about Charles Boycott. He rented out land to farmers during the 20th century. Many farmers couldn't afford to pay him, so many farmers were evicted. Due to this, there were boycotts against him. Those boycotts gave rise to the verb "boycott", named after the person. The word never existed before
yrbV TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to star in Terminator 3 because James Cameron wasn’t directing. Cameron told Schwarzenegger to just do the film and ask for “nothing less than $30 million.”
GAQ7G TIL a reclusive British trader caused a flash crash in 2010 that wiped $1 trillion off the US stock market while trading from his parents house in London.