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TIL the head of a tiny dinosaur that lived nearly 100 million years ago was found trapped in amber. The head of Oculudentavis khaungraae ("eye-tooth bird") is 14mm long with large eye sockets like modern lizards and upper and lower jaws full of sharp teeth, the most found on any ancestral bird.

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M7XE8 TIL the director Tony Kaye of American History X was regarded as unemployable by Hollywood because the studio wanted Edward Norton's cut which had an additional 18 minutes of footage. Kaye took out $100k in ads condemning Norton and studio and tried changing his name in the credits to Humpty Dumpty
x96b TIL that in China, 40% of engineers are women, and in the former USSR, women accounted for 58% of the engineering workforce.
j6xQX TIL that feet and hands are very similar structurally. Each finger and toe has 3 bones and each thumb and big toe has 2 bones.
9Y7ED TIL California was named after a mythical island of black women who kept man-eating griffins as pets
lKo1 TIL researchers trained flatworms, then decapitated them. After their heads grew back, researchers found they had retained their training.