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TIL a recently discovered fearsome Jurassic crocodile has been named Lemmysuchus, after Motorhead frontman Lemmy.

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QJ5WX Today I learned the African Golden Jackal, the animal upon which the ancient Egyptian god Anubis is thought to be based, was reclassified as a wolf in 2015.
8arlV TIL that in his later years, Mark Twain had a "disturbing passion for collecting young girls". By age 73 had collected ten schoolgirls, dubbed them his “angel-fish,” and awarded them membership in his Aquarium Club.
pYeNe TIL bully sticks are just dried bull penises
4XW7N TIL Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan played the same character on the All My Children soap opera. Jordan landed the role of Reggie Porter after Boseman was fired from it for Refusing to Play a Racial Stereotype
9YaRp TIL in Ancient Egypt, cats were bred not as pets, but for ritual mummification. Puppy farms and other animal breeding programmes were a huge industry that provided a stock of animals to be killed and mummified as an offering to the gods and to keep the dead company