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TIL That Thomas the Tank Engine fits on Hot Wheels track

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dDe7Z TIL - A paleobiologist said "Our best guess is that the mammal was in the middle of attacking the dinosaur," about a recently found fossil of a mammal biting a dinosaur.
5K1Q TIL Finding Nemo had the opposite effect that was intended. Despite its negative portrayal of keeping fish in aquariums, the use of clownfish prompted The demand for aquariums to triple. Demand was met by large-scale harvesting of tropical fish from the wild which devastated Clownfish Populations.
mx8v TIL Johnny Depp adopted the one-eyed, Andalusian horse who played Gunpowder, Ichabod Crane’s steed in Sleepy Hollow, in order to save him from being put down.
bOO4 TIL candles were put on cakes originally by the greeks who would put them on rounded cakes to signify the moon and its glow in honor of Artemis, the Goddess of the moon.
JYQDk TIL That John Snow, who found the cause of cholera during the height of an epidemic, proved his findings by halting an entire outbreak through one action- removing the infected water pump handle.