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TIL Flowering plants first appeared 15 million years after the Jurassic period ended

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GYNE5 TIL In 1908 William "Bigfoot" Anakin, a local champion, was taken along by a publican to court to help demonstrate that darts was not gambling, it was a game of skill. He threw three darts in the center, no other court official could do the same. The judge ruled that darts was a game of skill.
kJeEE TIL "Mr. Blue Sky" by ELO was considered for use as the theme song for NBC's "The Office" (2005-2013). However, it was already used as the theme song for another NBC show, the short-lived "LAX" (2004-05). Thus, an original composition by Jay Ferguson was used instead for the show,
0PQM TIL Flying squirrels are actually native to most the United States, people just don’t see them because they’re nocturnal… and flying
XEAEj TIL that we originally discovered how digestion work because a man named Alexis St. Martin developed a fistula in his stomach after a gunshot wound. The physician placed bits of food on a spoon and inserted them into the mans stomach through the fistula in order to observe the process of digestion.
78E8X TIL: The National Park Service recommends wrapping the entire underside of your car in a tarp to protect against marmots in Sequioa National Park