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TIL in 1970, a bomb exploded in the Senate Chamber of the Louisiana State Capitol building and left a pencil embedded in the ceiling, where it remains to this day.

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jNnJM TIL of the sunk cost fallacy. It is the general tendency for people to continue an endeavor, or continue consuming or pursuing an option, if they’ve invested time or money or some resource in it, which becomes a fallacy if it’s pushing you to do things that are making you unhappy or worse off.
WklnN TIL that when dogs and cats are kept with petsitters for a long duration, they will sometimes change their colors, patterns, and behaviors. This is totally normal and in no way suggests anything happened to your original dog, Mike.
b9GvE TIL That around 1000 years after the great pyramids were built, most mammoth populations had died out. However, in Wrangel Island in Russia, there were around 500-1000 mammoths still alive!
Lk5LQ TIL for 49 years the dinosaur Deinocheirus remained a mystery, known only for having the longest "arms" in the bipedal dinosaur world at almost 8 feet long. 2 near complete skeletons found by poachers were finally described in 2014, reveling a strange unexpected body shape.
XEYZX TIL about the italian general Pietro Badoglio. He's responsible for the defeat of Caporetto in WWI; the use of mustard gas during the italian invasion of Ethiopia; the failed invasion of Greece, the "switch of side" and the triggering of the Italian Civil War during WWII.