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TIL: 40% of Americans think that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time

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4pya TIL that after posing nude in Playboy, Drew Barrymore was sent a quilt with a note that read “Cover Up” by Steven Spielberg as a gag gift.
0d5y5 TIL that On average, a Hippopotamus can run at speeds of around 19–28 miles per hour (30–45 kilometers per hour).
M7YJ8 TIL about this 400 year old Japanese white pine Bonsai, which has been taken care of for 5 generations, and survived Hiroshima
XwJP TIL the brains of rats have a “random mode” that is switched on when they are in unfamiliar situations
X0nV8 TIL about Ina Benita, "the first Polish femme fatale", an interwar movie star that was believed dead after the Warsaw Uprising, but completely anonymously lived in the US until 1984. Her grandson only discovered this 30 years after her death. (translation from DE wiki due to depth)