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

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QnWX TIL President Lyndon Johnson would play pranks on unsuspecting guests by driving his amphibious convertible into lakes screaming about the brakes being out
b9x0E TIL: Two large fake rocks used in a James Bond movie are still outside in Antofagasta, Chile, where moviemakers left them after "Quantum of Solace" filming wrapped.
VBQEQ TIL that the first major German plot to overthrow Hitler, involving multiple generals and a Secretary of State, was cancelled last minute in 1938 when the Allies allowed the invasion of Czechoslovakia
LQDbd TIL Guqin, the ancient Chinese zither, has its own musical notation and 150 handbooks containing over 3,000 pieces of music spanning at least 1,500 years. However today fewer than two thousand people can play it, and it is rarely seen in China
Yp8OW TIL Spielberg’s Hook (1991), is the sixth highest-grossing “pirate-themed” film of all time, behind all five Pirates of the Caribbean movies.