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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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4Xvja TIL that in early Vietnam, after a Chinese general assassinated a man suspected of creating a revolt, the mans wife and her sister created and headed an army of 80,000 to take back Vietnam from the Han Dynasty. They then established an independent Vietnam for 3 years as 2 ruling Queens.
YpPdv TIL that Costa Rica Military has been gone for 70 years, when its army ceased to exist in 1948. In 2016, the country topped HPI ranking as the happiest nation in the world, proud of having more teachers than soldiers.
aVW9 TIL The world’s next tallest tower of all time will be built by the Bin Laden family.
b9Kn4 TIL that a large alliance of Native American tribes, the Timucua, consisted of over 200,000 people spread across 35 chiefdoms. They were probably the first Natives Ponce de Leon met in Florida. The nation was wiped out before 1800 and all evidence of religious items and art were burned by explorers.
04G5 TIL the final design for Chewbacca was based on an illustration for a 1975 novelette by George R.R. Martin