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TIL Joss Whedon co-wrote Toy Story, and Rex the dinosaur was Whedon’s creation.

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E17ow TIL: about the strange case of Bella the unidentified woman found dead inside a hollow tree in WW2. No one has ever been charged with her murder and no one is sure who she was although rumours speculated that she was a spy, she was killed by witches and that she was a a missing prostitute.
E1YdP TIL about Blue Babe, a 36,000 year old mummified steppe bison found in Alaska in 1979. After scientists painstakingly dug up the specimen and prepared it for display in the University of Alaska Museum, they decided to celebrate by taking a piece of meat from its neck, stewing it, and eating it.
9GrQ TIL that the Beijing Weather Modification Office is tasked with creating rain to end drought, reduce dust storms and prevent unwanted rain, and that between 1995 and 2003, China added 7.4 trillion cubic feet of rainfall artificially.
8pN4 TIL when Hunter S. Thompson died, his ashes were shot out of a cannon by Johnny Depp to the tune of “Mr. Tambourine Man” by Bob Dylan
noKr TIL that in 2007, while excavating for a new building in Central London, archeologists discovered the unmarked isolated remains of a teenage Roman girl. She was later reburied on site with full Roman burial rites, and her tomb is marked by a Latin inscription commemorating the “Unknown Roman Girl.”