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TIL palaeontologists found components of red blood cells in a 46-million-year-old fossilised mosquito

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P14NE TIL of Rene Lima-Marin, a Colorado inmate who was mistakenly released in 2008, 90 years early from a 98-year sentence. After six years of rebuilding his life with a family and steady job, he was returned to prison in 2014, raising issues of fairness and rehabilitation.
X0e9r TIL that the longest perfectly straight stretch of the U.S. interstate highway system is on I-80 between Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska and is approximately 72 miles (116 km) long.
OG7P1 TIL that rats emit high-pitched squeaks that are considered their "laughter", which are out of the range of human hearing, in response to being tickled.
xee7 TIL That a pug named Pompey woke up the prince of the Netherlands thwarting an assassination attempt. To this day the pug has been the official dog of the house of orange.
RyVj TIL that humans are more genetically similar to cats (90% in common) than dogs (82%).