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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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x6Bn0 TIL Maya Rudolph (actress and comedian) is Minnie Riperton’s (famous singer) daughter!
X0mZ6 TIL about Comstock laws. This Act criminalized any use of the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following items:[2] obscenity, contraceptives, abortifacients, sex toys, personal letters with any sexual content or information.
8a16Z TIL that police playing paintball further delayed the transition of a mental institution into a civil war museum in West Virginia.
YpQ5x TIL a key piece of evidence in an active murder investigation, a unique pair of eyeglasses, was sent to the show "Unsolved Mysteries" for their segment profiling the case. After Robert Stack handled them with his bare hands, they were lost. An innocent man was imprisoned for two decades.
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