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TIL There was a Dinosaur with Four Wings

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16OkO TIL that a dead person was elected as MP for the British constituency of Portsmouth in 1747. Four days after they were elected, news arrived that they had died 87 days earlier in the West Indies
16Z77 TIL that in 1982, to protest Border Patrol inspections that were harming tourism, the city of Key West, FL declared independence. The mayor named himself Prime Minister of the Conch Republic, declared war on the US, surrendered one minute later, then applied for one billion dollars in foreign aid.
LDVP TIL that the communicator used by Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom Menace is actually a Gillete Sensor Excel women’s razor
rRdr1 TIL when Elvis Presley's debut single was first played on the local radio station, he was invited for an on-air interview. The DJ asked Elvis which high school he attended: a roundabout way of informing the audience of his race without actually asking the question
jPoQ TIL There is a gemstone that has better brilliance, more fire, tougher, rarer and much cheaper than a Diamond: Moissanite