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

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v1JvD TIL that in feudal Japan, merchants were at/near the bottom of the social hierarchy because they didn't produce goods. Artisans were a step above them because they produced non-essential goods and peasants were above artisans because they produced food.
wLK06 TIL that Medieval Norse fabrics were so exquisitely preserved in Greenland that a 20th century woman would retrieve them from archaeological sites and reuse them for childrens clothes
EVP TIL a species of pig, the Barbirusas, has tusks that can grow long enough to penetrate its own skull, killing it
76OZ TIL that Steven Bradbury, an Australian short track speed skater, won an Olympic gold medal in the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics by cruising behind his opponents and waiting until they crashed during both the semifinal and the final.
90rB TIL there is an english village which has a scale model of itself, inside a scale model of iteself, inside a scale model of itself, inside a scale model of itself.