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TIL that most of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are from the Cretaceous period.

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OGyBR TIL that in 1996, it’s believed that a wasp built a nest in a Boeing 757’s airspeed sensor. Due to faulty readings, the plane crashed and killed all 189 people on board.
Eep TIL a British woman with severe Tourettes Syndrome owns a website where she records her own favorite vocal tics, and asks people to illustrate their favorites. Examples: “Batman breast fed my mum,” and “Roman velociraptor training scheme, artichoke speaking.”
KJ8E TIL there’s a series of 70-foot-long concrete arrows that bisects the country longitudinally all the way from SF to NYC, all designed to direct aerial traffic. They are from the pre-digital age and were installed by the Federal government in 1924, coupled with light signals to guide the way.
R7KLw TIL jewish scholars openly admit that 40% of jewish households owned slaves in the US.
kJgG1 TIL the first fully CGI character appeared in the 1985 movie Young Sherlock Holmes, which paved the way for movies like Toy Story