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TIL that James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) was shot six times while fighting for the Canadians during D-Day

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JYnnj TIL that a woman mistook some cheese for cocaine and so she hired a hit man to kill a house full of people to steal it. The hit man then turned out to be a cop.
OG6Z6 TIL A 72- to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behavior of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study| The most complete fossil suggests that these dinosaurs developed bird-like postures close to hatching.
brpN TIL of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a town in New Zealand. The name means “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one”.
nK4Y TIL more than 25 percent of gardeners over 35 years of age say they are using rain barrels and other similar collectors in each of the four regions of the U.S., while only 15 percent of millennial gardeners in each region use them.
4X6KN TIL that green smarties are strawberry flavored.