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TIL Humans and the Tyrannosaurus rex are closer on the world's timeline than the T. rex and Stegosaurus.

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PY1eJ TIL J.K Rowling invented Quidditch while in a pub.
OGxW1 TIL in July 1969, US Senator Ted Kennedy crashed his car into the sea after a party and left the scene, leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to drown, a young woman that could have been saved if help had been called that night.
J1DZk TIL in 1991 a British man who'd been swimming in the sea with a male wild dolphin was charged with indecency and sent to Crown Court for his treatment of the dolphin. The jury unanimously declared him innocent, leading his local MP to declare: ''This is the most ridiculous case I have heard of."
W7ePX TIL that the Financial Modeling World Cup is a competition for Excel enthusiasts who solve real-world case studies by creating financial models, with a $25,000 prize purse.
Vnop TIL in Abraham Lincoln’s 1846 run for Congress, friend’s gave him $200 to campaign. After winning he handed back $199.25 saying, “my only outlay was 75 cents which some farm hands insisted I should treat to.”