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TIL at least five people have invested professional time studying extinct amphibian teeth - and four still have unanswered questions

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6EbDm TIL Australian children's author Jackie French wrote a critically acclaimed novel called "Hitler's Daughter". Hitler's secret daughter, Heidi, escaped from the ruins of Berlin and emigrated to Australia, where she grew old and eventually revealed the truth to her granddaughter
wLD1J TIL of Dorothy Levitt: Among her many achievements, she held the water speed record, the women's land speed record, and even lays claim to inventing the rear-view mirror—seven years before being adopted by manufacturers.
698KX TIL Parrots can live 40-60 Years, I noticed this after coming back to my childhood home and seeing the same two green parrots in and old neighbor's backyard (i haven't been back in 15 years)
9YLoM TIL Monobloc plastic chairs are so widely used in the world, because of this, they became 'context-free object' for academic studies.
pLXb TIL a wild fox wandered into the United States Supreme Court building in 2002 and eluded capture for more than a day