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TIL: The Tully Monster, a prehistoric animal so bizarre that scientists still can't agree on how to classify it.

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R7ljw TIL - In 2017, a famed green jacket from the Augusta National Golf Club was purchased for $5 at a Toronto thrift shop, then sold at auction for $139k
7rxlZ TIL that many Union veterans saw it as insulting that Confederate monuments were being built to commemorate the very traitors they fought against. They saw it as an affront to their military service and an affront to their dead colleagues who died fighting the Confederacy.
9W7B TIL; Porcupines forage in trees but are bad climbers “in one study of porcupine skeletons in museums, 35 percent had healed fractures consistent with falling”
4XkeN TIL A large number of Chinese fled into North Korea in the 1880s due to drought and famine in their home provinces. Like their North Korean peers, Chinese children received free education in Chinese schools where they learned both Chinese and Korean
awA1N TIL that proceeds from the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon went towards funding the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Also, the members of the band were a fan of the comedy troupe, and often took breaks in the middle of their recording sessions to watch Monty Python’s Flying Circus.