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TIL Gary Sinise (LT Dan) started a band after 9/11 called the LT Dan Band and has performed an average of 30 Gigs per year since for Soldiers serving over-seas, and is the national spokesperson for American Veterans Disabled for Life memorial

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loOEA TIL of "Dreadnoughtus", one of the largest dinosaurs that ever existed. The fossil skeleton of the individual was 85ft/26m, but was not even a full grown adult and expected to grown even larger!
wLAZP TIL that the Jack Thompson who tried to take down GTA is the same Jack Thompson who tried to take down NWA.
KOlJ9 TIL Deep-Sea Gigantism is the tendency for species to be larger than their shallower-water relatives. Proposed explanations include: scarcer resources; greater pressure; and colder temperatures.
O76R TIL agoraphobic Janet Faal left her Crawley, UK, home for only the third time in 10 years in April 2015, only to fall into an open manhole, break her nose and fracture her leg.
r5BM TIL that the largest known fossil spider is only about half the size of its modern relatives. (Meaning that the biggest spiders that exist today might be biggest spiders that have ever existed…)