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TIL red lipstick has bugs in it

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Lk5LQ TIL for 49 years the dinosaur Deinocheirus remained a mystery, known only for having the longest "arms" in the bipedal dinosaur world at almost 8 feet long. 2 near complete skeletons found by poachers were finally described in 2014, reveling a strange unexpected body shape.
wQkJ TIL China’s only monogamous emperor made the decision to promote monogamy because one of his father’s women murdered his mom. He was hidden because the consort killed the emperor’s heirs in an attempt to gain power. When it was discovered that one had survived, she killed his mom instead.
J1m9Q TIL In Sri Lanka, divorce in any age group is statistically very rare. The primary reason for this is the challenge of establishing divorce grounds in court.
pAjQ TIL that renowned theoretical physicist David Bohm was not allowed to defend, or even write his own doctoral thesis because he didn’t have the security clearence
5VDLD TIL that horses and sheeps with horizontal pupils can rotate their eyeballs so as to keep their horizontal pupils parallel to the ground, which helps them identify predators