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TIL that despite the title, almost all the dinosaurs from Jurassic park lived during the Cretaceous period.

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awNY9 TIL that the closest living relative of bears are seals
yl7e TIL in 2013 a father in Tennessee was arrested for picking up his children from school on foot. The school had a policy that children can only be picked up by parents driving cars or kids can board a school bus.
E1X97 TIL That “old people house smell” is caused by our bodies releasing more of the chemical 2-nonenal as we age
MeBJ0 TIL that the U.S. was one of the original 17 who signed the Treaty of the Metre (Convention du Mètre) and given two of the original forty cylinders that is know as the International Protoype Kilogram
BrO8e TIL The world records for women's and men's discus throw is held by two East Germans. Furthermore the woman's world record, held by Gabriele Reinsch, is 76.80m making it 2.72m further than the men's world record, held by Jürgen Schult, which is 74.08m. (Note: a woman's discus is lighter 1kg vs. 2kg)