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TIL 1/3 of classified dinosaurs may have never existed.
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TIL In the third century the Roman Empire was split into several regions with several leaders. One of those leaders Constantine had ambitions to retake the Roman Empire. He lacked an army large enough to do so. He decided if he converted to Christianity the Christians would fight for him. He won.
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TIL there are approximately 20 supervolcanoes in the world, and the supervolcano underlying Yellowstone last erupted approximately 600,000 years ago.
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TIL: Country music became popular in America partially through a pirate radio station of a quack doctor based out Kansas who built a fortune on a procedure to implant goat testicles into men's scrotums.
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TIL In 1945, after Japan had conceded defeat in World War II, Sony founder Masaru Ibuka invented a product to try and serve the millions of homes who had electricity but lacked the appliances to use it. The result was an electric rice cooker.
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TIL any US citizen can take possession of an uninhabited island anywhere in the world so long as it contains guano deposits and is not within the jurisdiction of another government.