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TIL that a whale skeleton has two small bones in the pelvic area where legs used to be.

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LQNyP TIL that there are mattress sizes larger than California King and cost up to $5,000 named after American states Texas, Wyoming and Alaska
wLDoP TIL Toni Morrison helped fund “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” a play by Ishmael Reed that critiques the white-washing in Hamilton
jOpE TIL the 2nd richest man in history was Augustus Caesar, with an estimated net worth of about $4.6 Trillion after inflation - or about 25% of the world’s economic output then
69g4X TIL abou Fritz Haber, a Jewish German chemist who discovered the mass synthesis of Ammonia as fertilizer. He later aided Germany in WW1 by discovering Nitrogen explosives, weaponized Chlorine gas and early versions of Zyklone gas.
RQva TIL “the Rapture” is not in the Bible at all, it was invented in the 1600s by Cotton Mather. The term in the Bible mistranslated to "rapture” comes from the Greek ἁρπάζω (harpazo) which means “caught up” and refers to ONLY Philip