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TIL that even though they existed for about 165 million years, only about 700 species of dinosaur have been discovered to date.

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X7Pr TIL that during the pursuit of Gary Powers in his U2 spy plane on May 1st 1960, the USSR fired so many surface-to-air missiles in his general direction that one struck a soviet MiG-19 fighter sent to intercept him
1aND8 TIL when Steve Buscemi was 4-years-old he was hit by a bus and managed to survive with a fractured skull. He received a $6,000 settlement from the city that was to be collected from a trust fund when he turned 18. When Buscemi turned 18, he used part of the money to pay for full-time acting classes.
OGQK4 TIL of the metaphor of the "missing stair", where a problematic person in a community is discretely worked around and warned about, rather than openly addressed
ymy8 TIL Ecstasy is illegal in all countries in the world under a UN agreement. In Britain, the law has prohibited whole families of drugs even before they were invented and in the US, any new drug which has been designed to avoid the law is automatically prohibited
VMW8D TIL Armadillo shells are capable of deflecting bullets. A Texan man who tried to shoot an armadillo found himself in the hospital after the bullet bounced back off the animal and hit him in the face.