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TIL In Jurassic park (1993), the insect trapped in amber and which made the cloning of dinosaur possible was actually elephant mosquito. It's the only mosquito that doesn't suck blood, so cloning wasn't actually possible.

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kADe TIL A Croatian woman died in her apartment of natural causes. No one reported her missing and she was only discovered after burglars broke into her flat – 35 years later – and found her mummified body.
PYVDG TIL that u means you in text (who knew??!)
9YwJX TIL Big Band musician Glenn Miller scored 23 number one hits in just four years which was more than Elvis Presley (18 No. 1 hits) or the Beatles (20 No. 1 hits) managed in their entire careers.
b6g0Q TIL Lady Gaga snuck in NSFW lyrics into her popular song Poker Face. Only 1 radio station caught the edit (not a part of official lyrics) and called her on it. She hid "Fuck her face" in plain daylight as the response to "Poker Face"
R5gX1 TIL that The crust of the Earth is so thin, that it makes up 1% of the earth's volume that contains all known life in the universe and can be compared with a Peel of an apple.