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TIL About "Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair" a video game where you make a movie with Steven Spielberg

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M7JKK TIL the chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus
x6Nnk TIL about the Nichoria bone. A fossilized thigh bone belonging to an immense extinct mammal and found by the ancient Greeks. Believing the bone belonged to a giant, the Greeks venerated it. Thought to be long lost, it was rediscovered in Duluth, Minnesota.
9YjDX TIL about Alexander Cumming, an inventor and the first person to patent a flush toilet in 1775. Cumming included an s-trap in the design to prevent sewer gasses from entering the building through the toilet. Modern toilets still incorporate this design.
BrEQy TIL some birds in Australia have learnt to take flaming sticks from wildfires and carry them to other areas of woodland, in order to flush out prey.
RMvw TIL that Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A” deals with the negative effects of the Vietnam War on Americans, but is often misunderstood to be a patriotic or nationalistic anthem.