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TIL there were Arctic Dinosaurs and that Dinosaurs were neither cold or warm blooded.

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epmGk TIL that in competitive chess, if you want to adjust a piece that has been knocked over or jostled away from the center of its square, you use the French terms "J'adoube", which also means "I nominate (to a position)" and "I bestow knighthood upon (someone)".
kBw4 TIL that in 1941 the English tried to make “rat bombs” out of actual rat carcasses to use against the Germans.
78kML TIL Mae Louise Miller, was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961
X0L5j TIL that if the universe is finite, then we could travel on a spaceship and after a very long time we would eventually come back to be same place that we started.
9YN8B TIL Stan Lee’s job classification in the American military during WWII was ‘playwright’. He didn’t find this out until he was discharged.