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TIL the first dinosaur skeleton discovered in the US was in 1858 in Haddonfield, N.J. After excavations were complete the dig was ignored, became a dump, and was lost until 1984 when a local Boy Scout decided his community project to qualify for Eagle Scout would be rediscovering the original site.

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65nZ TIL two innocent people were imprisoned for 22 years due to false allegations of Satanic ritual sexual abuse of children. The social workers involved in the case believed that children’s denials of sexual abuse was proof that they had been abused.
oBX8L TIL people would come and go during movies before Psycho. Hitchcock required theaters to not allow people in after it started. It was after that when people would watch entire movies more regularly from start to end
OoGj4 TIL that Brad Bird, the writer and director for The Incredibles (2004), was also the voice of the superhero fashion designer Edna Mode.
D96p TIL the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) saw the only confirmed air-to-air helicopter battles in history.
0dPR TIL a prisoner was kept in a 9x7 cell w/no light, clock, or calendar. If he left his cell, he was fitted with goggles and headphones. He started having tics and unusual contortions of his body. He became convinced his lawyers were part of an interrogation program and his captors were protectors.