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TIL the Megatherium or giant Sloth was the largest bipedal mammal in the history of the earth

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j65mj TIL An endling is the last known individual of a particular species or subspecies. After the endling the species becomes extinct, never to walk the earth again. The first known use of the word endling occurred in an issue of the scientific journal Nature on April 4,1996.
KOb14 TIL about the Native American version of a Trojan Horse. In 1763 Native Americans played a early version of Lacrosse outside a British fortress during the Pontiac's Rebellion. They hit the ball through the open gate and both teams chased after the ball. Once inside they killed the soldiers.
vPBn4 TIL: The flag flown on the Peace Tower in Canada's Parliament Hill is changed every day (cept holidays) and any resident can request to receive the flag that was taken down (for free) - current wait time is over 100 years
5Y08n TIL American rapper Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album ‘DAMN’. This marks the first time the Pulitzer Prize in Music went to someone outside the classical or jazz community.
RJoa TIL of the ‘Radium Girls’ who worked in a factory where they worked with luminescent radium. Not knowing it was dangerous, they oftenpainted it on their lips and teeth for fun. They began to develop radium necrosis, causing their jaws to rot and develop disfiguring tumors, and eventually died.