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TIL Google will pay you $1Million if you can hack its web browser

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9YoGM TIL a teenage tyrannosaurus rex would go through a growth spurt where it gained 35-45 pounds a week
vPaaK TIL that the NYPD at one point employed an official beekeeper
Y7ZK7 TIL Greenland was so remote that no-one realised the Viking settlements had died out until 1721, when missionaries visited the island expecting to find Norsemen who may have relapsed to paganism and instead found ruins.
4XJ5a TIL that when the first white man came back to describe Yellow Stone and consequentially its geothermal features, his report was considered fictional. The same also happened for the second non-native.
7raMZ TIL the 10th U.S. President, John Tyler (b. 1790), has surviving grandchildren to this day. He had a son when he was 63, and that son had children at ages 71 and 75. Those grandchildren are now 89 and 93.