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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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KYyoE TIL that several Congressional investigations have found no evidence to believe that any American prisoners were held in southeast Asia after the end of the Vietnam war
R9jj TIL Abraham Lincoln’s sole guard at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865 was an unreliable cop who walked to the saloon next door to get drunk during the fateful play. Ironically, John Wilkes Booth was at the same saloon working up courage before walking next door to assassinate the unguarded President.
4kVaJ TIL: Sperms were thought to move by wiggling their tails side-to-side, like eels, for 350 years. But research shows that they roll as they move forward like a spinning top.
QJAye TIL that Cruise Ships have complimentary morgues that can hold up to 10 bodies, as seniors tend to be the primary customers. Not so recently this service was booming.
1QL8 TIL that Kurt Russell was actually the director of Tombstone, but kept his name off the credits by hiring a “ghost director”, someone who would be credited but was not allowed to make any decisions for himself and was only allowed to do what Russel told him.