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TIL that birds aren't just descendent from dinosaurs, they are dinosaurs. They evolved specifically from small, carnivorous theropods

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yQ7K8 TIL of HMP Peterhead, a prison that was known as “Scotland’s Gulag; a prison of no hope”. A report in 2005 found that electricity had just been added to all the cells and human waste was still manually emptied. It closed in 2013.
xVxm7 TIL The word "thug" comes from a murderous cult of bandits in India called Thuggee, who worshipped the Hindu goddess of death and destruction
yQPxl TIL In 1973, during his stay in Vietnam, Henry Moak was issued a combat ration that included a can of pound cake, manufactured in 1969. He vowed to eat the pound cake when he retired from the Army. On July 24, 2009, Colonel Moak opened the forty-year-old can and kept his word
PjYJ TIL that on average, Congress randomly brings up Hitler 7.7 times a month
MeK5B TIL that TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is not thousands of years old, and was actually invented and exported to the west in the 1950s by the Chinese government and Chairman Mao who did not believe in it himself.