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TIL that soft tissues, like biological cells, really can preserve in dinosaur bones. Maybe even some biomolecules like proteins!

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e0mJn TIL that the Romanian Parliament building is the heaviest building in the world. Despite containing two parliamentary chambers, three museums and an international conference centre, it is still 70% empty.
Lk4eP TIL A 9 company cartel fixed the prices of batteries worldwide from 2000 to 2011
E17XW TIL about "snickers pie", considered to be "one of the most unhealthy recipes ever published"
l71N5 TIL that almost all of the buildings that collapsed in the Great Hanshin (Kobe) 1995 earthquake and the 2011 Tohoku (Fukushima) earthquake were built before the 1981 “shin-taishin”, or New Earthquake Resistant Building Standard Amendment, was enacted.
rRN6w TIL There is a banana ripening facility in The Bronx, NY