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TIL of the Carolina Butcher, a 9-foot bipedal croc that probably ate armored reptiles

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aw0NM TIL Iran isn't the name of a government entity. It's simply how the Persian people say the name of their country in Farsi (Iran's Official language) "Iran" is Farsi for "Persia" (Greek form) and they simply wanted people to stop using the Greek form.
9P6D TIL For centuries the main source of metal to Greenland’s Inuits was from fragments of a 58-ton Iron Meteorite
5W6B TIL that due to an obscure subculture, there are more restored 1950s American cars in Sweden than in the entire USA
x66n7 TIL each standard issue M67 Hand grenade on average cost about $45 to manufacture in 2021.
PRoL TIL that a town in Newfoundland took in 38 airplanes carrying over 6,600 passengers immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Centers, almost doubling the town population. Despite this, the people of the town worked together tirelessly to care for the passengers for up to 6 days.