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TIL of a fossil known as “Fighting Dinosaurs”. Preserved remains of a Protoceratops and a Velociraptor trapped in combat.

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XEWOr TIL in The Goonies the director Richard Donner didn't let the child actors see One-Eyed Willy's ship so they could have a genuine reaction. When they first saw the ship some of them started to swear. So they had to use the 2nd take in the final cut.
VB5yD TIL that in 1997 Mattel released Share a Smile Becky, a disabled Barbie doll, only to discontinue it when the wheelchair couldn't fit through the front door of the Barbie Dreamhouse
BAVr TIL in 1152 while leading the defense for Newbury Castle, John Marshal was told to surrender immediately or his child would be hanged. John replied that he should go ahead saying, “I still have the hammer and the anvil with which to forge still more and better sons!”
xv55 TIL that the inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter
NXk6Q TIL that the Katip Sumat uprising in the 19th century was the ever-recorded jihad war involving Vietnam