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TIL There was a Dinosaur with Four Wings

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JYXn8 TIL The "Never argue with a fool" quote lacks proof crediting it to Mark Twain. The oldest suspected source is biblical proverbs 26:4 and 26:5: "Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Or you will also be like him. Answer a fool as his folly deserves, That he not be wise in his own eyes."
Y9kd TIL in 1991 a fake Russian TV program convinced many citizens that Lenin consumed a lot of psychedelic mushrooms, eventually even becoming a mushroom himself. The Leningrad Communist Party responded that “Lenin could not have been a mushroom” because “a mammal can not be a plant”
JaNm TIL that Michael Clarke Duncan was a bodyguard for Will Smith and Notorious B.I.G.
69rVY TIL Halifax's United Memorial Church was founded by the surviving members of a Methodist church and a Presbyterian church that were both destroyed by the 1917 explosion. The two groups decided to temporarily hold services together but became so close they decided to merge into one church.
KOke6 TIL that bug spray doesn’t actually repel bugs, it masks your scent so they don’t find you as easily