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TIL: That Sloths have been around for 64 million years

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8ebWX TIL that John Boorman submitted a script for a Lord of the Rings film, in which many things are changed & added such as Gimli is put in a hole & beaten so he can retrieve the password to Moria from his ancestral memory; Frodo & Galadriel have sex; Arwen is a teenaged spiritual guide, upon many other
XYm8 TIL the Idaho traffic code allows for bicycles approaching a stop sign to slow to a “reasonable speed” but does not mandate a full stop. This is commonly known as the “Idaho Stop”
YdZv TIL Doctors from teaching hospitals around the world regularly hold Morbidity and Mortality Conferences (or simply M&Ms), where they can candidly discuss unexpected patient deaths. The discussions are confidential and legally protected, and help improves patient mortality rates.
Egg0o TIL South American independences were planned by Thomas Maitland, the Maitland Plan consisted on capturing Buenos Aires and Chile, and then emancipate Peru and Quito. It was not employed by Britain but José de San Martín who was introduced to the plan, he would "liberate" great part of the continent
Brk1r TIL Child prodigy Edmund Thomas Clint died at age 6 but still drawn over 25,000 paintings during his life.