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TIL there was a dinosaur with 500 teeth

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eoEE TIL of Tom Crean, an Irish Antartic explorer who along with Ernest Shackleton and two other men, sailed 1,500km in a life boat across Drake passage to save the lives of 22 men stranded on Elephant island. Known as one of the most extraordinary feats of seamanship and navigation in recorded history.
6EPxm TIL The letter sent by the FBI to the band NWA, made famous in the film Straight Outta Compton is now enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The letter said the song Fuck Tha Police promoted “violence against and disrespect for the law-enforcement officer,"
b6pN0 TIL Adam Smith didn't invent free market capitalism, the French Physiocrats did
rrXe TIL in 1988, the administrative law judge for the DEA stated: “Nearly all medicines have toxic, potentially lethal effects. But marijuana is not such a substance. There is no record in the extensive medical literature describing a proven, documented cannabis-induced fatality”.
9wwQG TIL Learned that from the day it was discovered until the day it was formally revoked of it's status as a planet, Pluto made it less then 1/3 of the way around the sun.