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TIL baby & juvenile dinosaurs have been mistakenly labeled as whole new dinosaur species because their younger skeletons differ so much from their adult form.

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rooo TIL there’s a poem called “The Chaos” by Gerard Nolst Trenité which was written to show differences in pronunciation of English words spelled similarly and only rhymes if you know how to pronounce them correctly.
NM1b TIL Student debt in America now exceeds $1 Trillion.. that is even greater than the nation’s credit card debt!
W7G6d TIL in 1991 a warehouse in Wisconsin holding over 4,000 tonnes of butter caught on fire. After five hours the melted butter flooded and formed a "butter river" that was 2-3 feet deep and as much as 5 feet deep in some places. The fire lasted for 8 days.
odO7 TIL that, in 1948, a psychologist gave a group of his students a test that he said could summarise their personalities. Upon receiving their summaries one week later, the students gave them an average accuracy score of 85.2%. In reality, the students had all received the exact same summary.