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TIL in the Jurassic Park book a baby is eaten alive by dinosaurs

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bbE4 TIL that In 1994, Michael Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at No. 1 in US television (ER), film (Jurassic Park), and book sales (Disclosure).
0dAWR TIL roughly 1 in 22 Dodge Ram 2500 drivers have been cited with a DUI before, more than twice the national average of 1 in every 55 drivers overall.
5Y1ER Today I learned Australia has re-started industrial logging old growth forests in bush fire affected areas
pYaWp TIL that in the height of the 1930s depression, gangster Al Capone ran a soup kitchen in Chicago, serving coffee, donuts, and second helpings, “no questions asked.”
4kkVb TIL that Queen Elizabeth II had two severely disabled first cousins who were publicly pronounced dead in 1940 and 1961 respectively, but actually lived in a care home with no visits or support from the royal family until their actual deaths in 1986 and 2014.