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TIL that velociraptors were only a few feet tall, had feathers and was more like a big predatory chicken. They are extremely oversized in Jurassic Park

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X0Jlj TIL before the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was completely constructed, there were concerns among the public that its high-energy experiments would lead to the formation of micro black holes or strangelets, a dark-matter-like particle that can convert all matter it touches into strange matter.
8kLb TIL that the same company that produced the Zyclon B gas for Auschwitz also created the anti-graffiti coating for the Holocaust memorial in Berlin
7r1dM TIL that leap years are every 4 years, but if it's divisible by 100 we skip it, unless it's divisible by 400 then we add it back, UNLESS it's divisible by 8000, in which case it will be skipped
jNZVX TIL that when the British burned the White House in 1812, they did not burn the Marine Barricks or the Commandant's House out of respect for the honorable conduct of the Marines at the Battle of Bladensburg
awK1M TIL the actor who played the female marine in Aliens, Jenna Vasquez, thought the movie was about illegal imigrants at first. She arrived at the audition for the tough-as-nails space marine wearing a skirt and high heels.