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TIL the only avian dinosaurs to survive the asteroid mass extinction event were no larger than a duck and still had teeth.

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yQaaM TIL that homosexuality has been legal in France since the Napoleanic era.
Eg0Ow TIL in January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg filed eight "quiet title and partition" lawsuits against hundreds of native Hawaiians to claim small tracts of land which they owned on the island of Kauai. This land is contained within the 700 acres of land that Zuckerberg had purchased in 2014.
4L6b TIL that at the height of WWII, Oak Ridge, TN used 20% more electricity than NYC
P1OeG TIL that the swedish word for conducting invesigative journalism is named after the german invesigative journalist Günter Wallraff
D8yj TIL soon after the American revolution, the leader of the Continental Congress asked the Prince of Prussia to become King of the United States