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TIL that the NFL has no rules stating that dogs aren’t allowed to enter, making Air Bud something that could actually happen.

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VM87p TIL Viking women’s faces were more masculine than today’s women, while Viking men's faces looked more feminine than today's men, with a less prominent jaw and brow ridges. The ambiguous facial features mean that it is difficult to decide upon a Viking skeleton’s sex based on the skull alone
9BMM TIL in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest trees have been discovered that can “walk” up to 20 meters in a year
kgy5 TIL that Michael Rockerfeller is rumored to have died and eaten by cannibals during an expedition to New Guinea but previously unreleased footage from this documentary may prove he is alive and living with the native tribe.
xVWL5 TIL that most of the heat produced by objects entering earth's atmosphere at high speed is caused by the compression of the air in front of the object, and not friction.
D1rXj TIL that before the arrival of Polynesians, New Zealand was occupied by large flightless birds called the Moa. The largest of these was the South Island Giant Moa which could reach up to nearly 12 feet tall, making them the tallest bird species in history. They only went extinct around 1445.