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TIL The ancient Greeks may have based their mythological monsters off fossilised dinosaurs they discovered

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njV7 TIL that President McKinley was supposed to meet the inventor of the bullet proof vest to try the new invention but never made it because he was shot to death by a bullet that would have easily been stopped by the vest
XEr1X TIL that Mary Ann and Charles Goodnight were responsible for the continued existence of pure American Bison and returned them from the verge of extinction.
dD8kj TIL that women were encouraged to hand men who hadn’t enlisted to fight in WW1 white feathers, as a symbol of cowardice.
dDwlj TIL that in Toy-story, the characters name is actually “Buzz light year not Buzz light gear”
OWN1 TIL that “Make feet for children’s stockings” was once a euphamism for sex.