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TIL rhino horns, tortoise shells and amber are all types of plastics.

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kOa9B TIL Pope John Paul ll and Pope Francis are honorary members of the Harlem Globetrotters
WklKA TIL that Eve Plumb, who played Jan Brady in the Brady Bunch, also played the matriarch of a crime family in the ultraviolent Blue Ruin.
pajp TIL in 1945 the New Zealand Division alone fought the Nazis to take Trieste, in Italy. When it was secured, US Marines organised a parade, headed by themselves with a banner ‘US Marines. Second to None.’ Behind them marched the NZD carrying a sheet with the word ‘None.’
nWV9W TIL of 'Soul of the Earth' by Rafael Trénor--an earth sized sculpture forming the concept of a cube within the earth with the 8 corners poking out on/near land, will be the largest sculpture on earth when the final vertex is finished in Spain.
PYZ6O TIL that dimetrodon was never a dinosaur, but was actually more closely related to mammals. Also that pop culture depictions of dimetrodon are super inaccurate.