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Today I learned that the dinosaur ancestor of chickens is literally called the "Wonderchicken".

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W8yX TIL there’s a service that routes telemarketing calls to a bot that wastes as much time as possible engaging in conversation
GAMRG TIL as Spielberg was filming Jurassic Park's climatic scene as originally scripted (with the velociraptors defeated by Dr. Alan Grant & John Hammond), he had the last-minute idea to bring back the T-Rex for the climax. As an "off-the-cuff thing", the physical effects had to be setup in about 24 hrs.
YpmRW TIL 'Desire paths' is the term for the paths that are naturally created by people's footfalls when they walk around paved paths. Some universities and hospitals have avoided these by waiting to see where they formed naturally, then paving over established desire paths.
7rZPO TIL, during the Norway 2011 shootings, an innocent teenager originally from Chechnya, Russia, was arrested and interrogated as a suspect because he did not react with the same level of tears and hysteria as the other survivors.
J1Dlv TIL Compared with many primates, humans have a high propensity for proactive aggression, a trait shared with chimpanzees but not bonobos. By contrast, humans have a low propensity for reactive aggression compared with chimpanzees, and in this respect humans are more bonobo-like.