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TIL brontosaurus never existed

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nJ4o TIL China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission
Vr6B TIL in the last 5 millennia, genetic change in humans has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period of human evolution. Humans today are more genetically different from humans living 5,000 years ago than these people were from humans living 40,000 years ago.
9Wvm TIL in 2013 a 27yo Psychology Student, who had already published articles in medical journals, died of a drug overdose while celebrating her new job - working as a drug counselor
QNy7X TIL that the pancake ice, a collection of loose and plate ice crystals, features raised edges that is formed by slush on a turbulent water, different from other types of sea ice formed under calm conditions.
x6jJ5 TIL that Japanese actor Bandō Mitsugorō VIII claimed to be immune to fugu kimo, naturally toxic pufferfish liver. He ate 4 portions in a restaurant with his friends in Kyoto and died 8 hours later.