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TIL there is no such thing as a brontosaurus

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5YrBQ TIL about Louis Le Prince, who mysteriously went missing, preventing him from revealing that he had invented the single-lens motion picture camera, long before Edison who is widely credited with the invention.
9ABQ TIL Iraq still uses bomb detecting devices that are nothing more than a modern day dowsing rod and have been proven fake. They were purchased for around 85 million.
ANLRw TIL there are carnivorous caterpillars that wear the skins of their prey.
AN6mn TIL George Washington is the only U.S. president elected as an independent to date. Washington opposed the development of political parties.
wop7M TIL Port Hedland, a tiny little town in North Western Australia, is home to the 2nd largest bulk export port in the world and the #1 highest tonnage port in Australia with annual throughput of over 500 million tonnes of mostly iron ore headed to China.