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TIL there have been serious scientific attempts to study whether or not our “reality” is, in fact, a computer simulation a la “The Matrix”

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ADXg4 TIL that Stegosaurus was already a fossil by the time that T-Rex appeared. T-Rex was closer in time to us than to Stegosaurus.
J1JO1 Today I learned there's a tree with bark that curls off and scientists aren't sure why this happens
jNE7p TIL the financiers of The Human Centipede did not know about the mouth-to-anus aspect of the film until after it was complete
a8PgJ TIL Yoko Ono’s uncle Toshikazu Kase was a high ranking Imperial Japanese civil servant and diplomat that was present at the 1945 surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri and was Japans first ambassador to the UN.
ebQJ TIL that the American gangster John Dillinger escaped from jail with a wooden pistol. After whittling it in his cell, in March 1934 he used the fake weapon to intimidate 33 people before getting a real machine gun. “Ha, ha, ha! And I did all this with a wooden gun!” he bragged while leaving.