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TIL That All Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded

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kOpR5 TIL that drug lord Pablo Escobar had so much cash that rats ate almost $1 billion of his money each year
nWnWo TIL there was a short-lived country in Africa named the Republic of Maryland, settled by freed slaves from the US state of Maryland. Their governor was named John Brown (different one) and then they got annexed by Liberia.
69lmY TIL that Lauren Shephard Churchly, the daughter of Alan Shephard (first America in space) also went up in space.
VMo90 TIL that in 1995 a Florida man buried 9 "unwanted" day-old puppies alive in a paper bag, in full view of their tethered mother. Mama dog broke free later and began frantically digging the ground and retrieving puppies, which luckily attracted the attention of a neighbor who phoned police.
omKK TIL - gorillas can learn more than 1000 words and may be smarter than 15% to 20% of humans based on standardized IQ tests