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TIL that every full moon has a nickname

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1a06O TIL: Gigantopithecus blacki was the largest ape ever recorded. The first fossils were discovered after being on sale in a pharmacist in Hong Kong, listed as, "dragon bones/teeth". It's estimated that they weighed between 300 - 500kg and reached 3m in height.
N7LME TIL that when an amateur historian found the bodies of the Romanov family in 1979 it was kept hidden until the fall of the Soviet Union.
W74RN TIL that, following WW2, a German engineering company - JA Topf & Sons - continued in business under different names until 1996. JA Topf & Sons designed and built gas chambers and crematoria ovens for Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau and other concentration camps.
ERdd TIL the word “Gypped” meaning “to cheat, swindle”, is a racial slur deriving from the word “Gypsy”
6768 TIL Reminder - Main song from “O’ Brother Where Art Thou’ was an archival recording of an actual prisoner 40 years earlier. The record label tracked him down, paid him, and took him to the Grammys.