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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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a6Lb TIL a FarmVille player stole from a blind man and murdered another person due to his desperation for FarmVille cash
Vb44 TIL that in 2013 PayPal accidentally credited a guy’s account with $92,233,720,368,547,800, making him temporarily the richest man in the world by a million times. When PayPal admitted the error they paid a sum to a charity of the guy’s choice.
JYZXB TIL about the door-in-the-face. An attempt is made to convince the respondent to comply by making a large request that the respondent will most likely turn down. The respondent is then more likely to agree to a second, more reasonable request, than if that same request is made in isolation.
b9RPj TIL that the origin of the idiom "Red Herring" was itself a red herring. It was originally stated that red herring were used to help hounds sniff out prey. It's misleading because red herring were actually used to train horses and were only used if there were no dead cats available instead.
p8v9O TIL of irukandji syndrome. Caused by irukandji jellyfish venom, it has an unusual symptom where the victim has a feeling of "impending doom." The victim is so sure they are going to die, that they ask the doctors to kill them.