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TIL that the story of the US army giving native Americans blankets laced with smallpox is a lie.

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9e46 TIL that the roar from the T-Rex in Jurrassic Park was a combination of a baby elephant’s squeal, an alligator’s gurgling, and a tiger’s snarl.
8eQ6L TiL Liv Tyler kept her elf ears from The Lord Of The Rings, but they melted when she left them in her car.
J1vk4 TIL that UC Davis is 60% female
4XRAo TIL about MARAUDER, a real plasma cannon developed by the United States Air Force in 1993. The device could fire a ring of plasma with the force of 5 pounds of TNT. Impact effects included a high temperature explosion with x-ray radiation and EMP.
VBLr0 TIL before World War II, not many married Western men wore wedding rings. During the war though, married men who were serving in the military started to wear them to remind themselves of their wives and families back home, and it became much more common.