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TIL that chickens are tiny dinosaurs and their closest living relative is the Tyrannosaurus rex

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lKj5 TIL George Clooney suffered from Bell’s Palsy while he was in middle school. It only lasted for a year, but he was relentlessly harassed and heckled by his classmates.
AjZd TIL there is no December 30, 2011 in the history of the Pacific Ocean islands of Samoa and Tokelau as the day was skipped when these islands moved their time zone from the last time zone east of the international date line to the first west of the date line
KYM6w TIL it costs about $100000 for a typical day to operate a blimp. Of the 25 blimps existing around the world only half are in use. They are primarily used for advertising and aerial photography.
R7GJl TIL Tomohiro Nishikado, creator of Space Invaders, made the entire game himself. Not only was he its designer, programmer, artist, and sound mixer, but he also engineered the game’s microcomputer from scratch.
bmjj TIL that until 1987, heart surgery (and other surgeries) could be performed on babies with no anaesthesia, as it was commonly thought that babies could not feel pain