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TIL that the hip-hop group Beastie Boys are credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with naming the mullet hairstyle in a 1994 song.

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gg9L TIL Paleontologists found fossils of “Machimosaurus rex,” a prehistoric crocodile that would have been the size of a bus, 30 ft. long and weighing 3 tons; the skull discovered is over 5 ft. long, the world’s largest sea-dwelling crocodile.
69507 TIL that Will Smith has more #1 hits than Billie Eilish
rNKvd TIL you can get appendix stones, calcified deposits similar to bladder or kidney stones. They’re called appendicoliths.
16Op8 TIL that our spinal chord has consistency of a Banana
KO616 TIL “Monster Mash” used low-budget sound effects for the recording: the sound of a coffin opening was made by a rusty nail being pulled out of a board; the sound of a cauldron bubbling was water being bubbled through a straw, and the chains rattling were simply chains being dropped on a tile floor.