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TIL that the assertion from Jurassic Park that T-Rex was unable to see anything not moving is false and a study suggests that they even had better vision than modern day hawks and eagles.

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GAnMG TIL that the United States has a long and storied history of partisan guerilla warfare against its own citizens
pYdw4 TIL that Soviet General Georgy Zhukov oversaw innovations on the Mongolian front, including replacing gasoline engines in tanks with diesel. These developments helped perfect the T-34 tank, considered the war's most outstanding all-purpose tank.
kgl1 TIL Britain became an island after the English channel was carved out from 2 megafloods caused by the meting of a large ice sheet that covered Britain and Scandinavia 450,000 years ago.
KO5DQ TIL Punxsutawney Phil (the Groundhog's Day groundhog) lives in a terrarium built into the children's section of the local public library
d8R9E TIL the ‘Swiss Army Man’ directors had a dummy made up of Daniel Radcliffe, assuming he didn’t want to do the weird, nude, farting stunts and lay around in dirt. But he loved it so much, he insisted on doing every scene.