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TIL T-rex babies were fluffy.

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KYob6 TIL female elephants stay fertile into their 60s
QkZp TIL Russia is planning to invest $65 billion USD in what would be the world’s longest tunnel (103 km/64 miles) called the TKM-World Link. The tunnel would run under the Bering Strait and connect Russia to Alaska.
YpvAZ TIL that the first battle of WWI consisted of a British ship firing a single shot at a German ship on Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi) in Africa, and taking the captain "prisoner." The two captains had been drinking buddies for years, and weren't about to let the war ruin it.
XRV8 TIL that Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist from San Diego, avoided a traffic fine by publishing a paper called The Proof of Innocence, for which he was also awarded a special prize of $400.
O0rX TIL In the early 1960s, the US military dispersed 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit around the Earth, in a failed attempt at creating an artificial ionosphere to improve radio communication. Many of the needles are still up there today.