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TIL that dinosaurs may have danced like birds to woo mates

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7rndX TIL NASA sent actor and Puppeteer Caroll Spinney a letter asking if he’d be interested in flying in space as Big Bird to get kids interested in space travel, do to the size of the costume this idea was scrubbed and the spot on the Space Shuttle Challenger later went to Christa McAuliffe
P1W9g TIL that part of Batman's iconic look is partly inspired by the villain from the film The Bat Whispers (1930) According to Bob Kane on of the creators of Batman
aw5DZ TIL that the largest city in the world that cannot be reached by road is Iquitos, Peru. The city has a population of over 600,000 people and is considered to be Peru's gateway into the Amazon Forest.
69XpW TIL in 2007, an adhesive company was sued for 16million for manslaughter charges as a result of structure failure that take place in the world's most expensive highway
QJYyX Today I learned that Dr. Seuss's name should actually be pronounced "Soice", but he embraced the "Soose" mispronunciation because it rhymed with Mother Goose.