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TIL that "Star Wars" creator George Lucas personally funded "Jurassic Park" paleontologist Jack Horner's "Build a Dinosaur" (a.k.a "chickenosaurus") project, a bid to "reverse genetically engineer a living dinosaur using chicken DNA".

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aor0 TIL That during his Indian campaign, Alexander the great encountered a tribe that hadn’t discovered fire yet
wLAJW TIL the Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) is a small semiaquatic, globally threatened mammal related to moles and shrews which inhabits Spain, Portugal, Andorra and the French Pyrenees. The desman has webbed feet and a very sensitive and elongated nose which it uses to find its invertebrate prey.
m1Wvy TIL Calcutta-born Normal Gilbert Pritchard has (so far) been the only India-born athlete to ever win an Olympic medal in a running competition, winning two silvers in the 1900 Paris Olympics
nWkAP TIL the founding drummer for The Offspring was on trial for medical malpractice when he saved the life of a potential juror who went into cardiac arrest during the jury selection. Afterwards, the judge ruled a mistrial to avoid biases from any of the potential jurors who saw him save a life.
0dWm5 TIL: The Band Chevelle’s hit 2009 song “Jars”, A Song About Saving The Environment, Has A Music Video With Two Alternate Endings That Have Nothing To Do With The Song. The Band Was Not Involved With The Production And Has No Idea What The Video’s Meaning Is, Assuming There Is One