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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
R7Jdl TIL: in the 1960s a boy smuggled in three giant African snails into Florida, and later released them. Within seven years there were an estimated 18,000 of the creatures in the wild, taking 10 years and over $1M to eradicate.
6EZJX TIL that Spanish explorers originally called pecans "wrinkle nuts."
d8y89 TIL that Christian buildings are the only religious buildings on the continent of Antarctica. Although they are used mostly for Christian worship, the Chapel of the Snows has also been used for Buddhist and Bahá'í ceremonies.
XXXk TIL that the reason the movie industry is largely based in Hollywood, California was to evade the monopoly that Thomas Edison had at the time. Anyone not following his rules in his domain would be sued out of business.