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TIL that Giant Squid was Found on Shore of Beach in Spain which Weighed 400 Pounds and Measured 30 Feet Long

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jNBap TIL "Going with your gut" is a real thing. There is increasing evidence of a "second brain" in the guy called the Enteric Nervous System and the relationship between digestion, mood, health, and cognition.
4kPN TIL that Will Smith was offered the role of Superman/Clark Kent but declined, saying: “You mess up white peoples’ heroes in Hollywood, you’ll never work in this town again!”
wgPY TIL the term ‘Herd’ refers to large groups of herbivores, if they are carnivores its a 'Pack.’
VMvPm TIL mummies were so plentiful in Egypt in the 1800’s, they were used as fuel for locomotives.
loGW5 TIL that one of the reasons the Piltdown Man hoax, the supposed missing link between ape and man found in Britain, fooled so many was because many European scientists, especially Britons, wanted to believe that the earliest humans came from Europe and not from Africa due to their prejudices.