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dDmgd TIL about Irritator, a relative of Spinosaurus that got its name because scientists were frustrated to find out the fossils of this creature had been artificially modified by a collector to try and drive up their sale price.
v1rVB TIL about Hanoi Hannah, a Vietnamese radio personality who read the names of GIs that were KIA directly from the Stars and Stripes newspaper, and played popular anti-war songs to incite homesickness, attempting to persuade US GIs to go home during the Vietnam War.
wooG1 TIL birds are the only living descendants of dinosaurs; birds evolved from a group of dinosaurs called theropods.
0J1L TIL in 2001 the Taliban in Afghanistan dynamited and destroyed the two largest standing Buddhist statues in the world, both over 100 feet tall and more than 1400 years old.
VwrD TIL that there was a submarine named the USS Kamehameha.