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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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9bG6 TIL John Cleese was the first person to say ‘fuck’ in a televised memorial service in Britain
v10dx TIL that French queen Marie Antoinette was offered in 1787 a boy from Senegal as a servant but instead taking him as servant she adopted him as her son and baptized as Jean. During the revolution Jean was separated from the royal family and left by revolutionaries to die on streets at age of 10.
o0lL TIL a man survived 3 days in an air pocket after his ship sunk in 100 foot waters, and was rescued by a diving team searching for bodies.
78ldO TIL that from the beginning of the Cold War to 1978, the US Army created a fictionalised opposing force known as the Aggressor Republic to train against in war games. The fictional Mediterranean nation was detailed enough that it had its own backstory and unique forces structure [PDF warning]
69pRw TIL about Russia’s “Time of Troubles” (1598–1612), when three imposters—False Dmitry I, II, and III—each claimed to be Ivan the Terrible’s son, who had died at age 8. All seized power as Tsar and died violently. The chaos ended with the rise of the Romanov dynasty in 1613.