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TIL that velociraptors were really only the size of an average dog and had feathers. The Jurassic Park movies took the name and applied it to another dinosaur from the raptor family.

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x68Nb TIL that Kit Kat wafers are actually made from ground up Kit Kat rejects.
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deV7 TIL the word Dildo comes from a Latin word meaning to “open wide”
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