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TIL Golden Retrievers originated from Scotland

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rRvgx TIL predatory dragonflies the size of modern seagulls were present on the earth about 300 million years ago. The leading theory suggests that their large size was due to high oxygen concentrations (over 30% unlike the 21% today) in the atmosphere.
D11Lp TIL of the "Just Missed it Club," a group of people who, for one reason or another did not sail on the Titanic. One of these members was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, son of the late shipping and railroad mogul Cornelius Vanderbilt. He died in the Lusitania disaster 3 years later.
Y7ONv TIL Tattooing was illegal until 1997 in New York.
abg0 TIL, in honor of a 1982 The Far Side comic, the spiked end of a stegosaurus’s tail is referred to by paleontologists as the “Thagomizer”.
OGxp1 TIL the current flag of South Africa is only 30 years old and was literally designed a few weeks prior to it being officially hoisted on 27 April 1994