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TIL Dwayne Johnson knew about Osama Bin Laden's assassination before we did - and broke the news on Twitter

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gMODX TIL that a paleontologist served stew made from the neck meat of an at least 50,000-year-old bison to a dinner party of seven people in Alaska in 1984
1gBd TIL Teddy Roosevelt, when made Police Commissioner of New York City, inherited a vastly corrupt police force. In order to make sure officers weren’t slacking off or performing corrupt activities, he himself would walk their beats most nights and early mornings.
X01BP TIL that from 1991 until 2019, women were not allowed to wear trousers in Sudan.
YpJx7 TIL Infant simulator programs in high schools, intended to discourage teenage pregnancies, actually backfired.
GOD7 TIL Russia inflates its military with realistic blow-up weapons that can trick enemy radar such as inflatable tanks and MiG fighter jets and even entire radar stations.