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TIL there were human zoos in the 20th Century

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ADjmB TIL that a sheepherder in Wyoming built a cabin out of dinosaur bones he found on the ground, not knowing that’s what they were until a paleontologist stumbled upon the place in 1897.
MEDK TIL that the Presidents of the United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1890s were called the ‘Forgettable Presidents’ because they were either impeached, assassinated, disgraced by their own party, surrounded by corruption, or possibly fraudulently elected
D10jv TIL after Alois Alzheimer gave the first ever speech describing the symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease, no one in the audience asked him any questions or made any follow-up comments, because they were all much more excited to hear the next guy on the list give a speech about compulsive masturbation.
j6ewM TIL Ford designed the iconic Jeep grille
neprB TIL the first operation in history where the long-distance radio-controlled explosions were used for military purposes was when Red Army blew up the historic center of Kiev in September 1941. Together with civilians