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TIL Great White Sharks have never been observed mating and it's unknown where, how or when they do it.

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WkyEA TIL That the T. Rex could easily be outrun by a human given their maximum speed is only around 12 mph
RQVl TIL that 13,000 years ago, North America had a lake bigger than the Black Sea. When it finally drained it cause global sea levels to rise as much as 3 meters.
N7ge TIL: George Lucas was sure Star Wars was going to flop, so he made a friendly bet with Stephen Spielberg: That if Close Encounters of the Third Kind made more money than SW, he would get 2.5% of the profit for all time, and vice versa. Spielberg still gets enormous, grudging checks today.
M7Ab7 TIL about the Kadaknath chicken breed in India. Because of melanin pigmentation, the entire chicken is black or grey-black in colour, including plumage, legs and toenails, beak, tongue, comb and wattles; even the meat, bones, blood and organs
AD6Mn TIL that in medieval times, corpses of sick people were used as catapult ammunition, as a form of biological weapon.