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TIL Miners in Canada found a dinosaur that still had its skin, muscles and internal organs preserved

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ne0lb TIL about Operation Mincemeat, a British deception plot to fool the Nazis into thinking that the Allies were going to invade Greece instead of Italy by planting deceptive information on a corpse on the Spanish coast with the hopes that Spain would pass it on to German Intelligence.
E1YJ7 TIL about the Tree of One Hundred Horses, a massive chestnut tree that holds the world record for girth, clocking in at 190 feet in circumference—nearly the length of a hockey rink.
kOZVg TIL about monster study, a study so heinous that it was not even published and 7 of the orphan children participating in it got $1.2M as compensation for lifelong emotional and psychological scars.
80n8 TIL that negative stereotypes about Star Trek fans have existed for a very long time. A 1975 newspaper article mocked them as fat junk-food eaters obsessed about show trivia.
nebG7 TIL: when St. Jerome translated the Bible to common Latin, he made the forbidden fruit an apple as a pun.