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TIL that Marie-Antoinette never said “let them eat cake”

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ANJg7 TIL Mitch and Dallas Seavey, father and son dog mushers, are respectively the oldest and youngest winners of the Iditarod dogsled race. From 2012 to 2017, together they won six straight races.
r9Bw TIL that paleontologists have no idea how dinosaurs had sex
l77P1 TIL that in 1923 a small town in Kansas elected a 3-year-old as mayor, but he was removed 5 months later because the people realized that he wasn't able to run the entire town
e056g TIL that in 1924 in South Bend, Indiana a Chimpanzee was Arrested and Convicted for Smoking
1am44 TIL that Pygmies raised in a thick forest were unable to interpret distant objects. One thought that buffalo grazing in the distance were insects.