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TIL That All Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded

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EJVX TIL the earliest known reference to Christ refers to him as a magician.
epZDE TIL Muhammad Ali dedicated his defeat of Joe Frazier in the 1975 boxing heavyweight championship to one of his favorite actors, Christopher Lee, best known at the time for playing Dracula & Bond villain Scaramanga
l7MjV TIL about the “Rawalpindi Experiments” where British Soldiers tested the effects of mustard gas on 20,000 Indians in the early 1930s
gMVQX TIL Julia Louis-Dreyfus made her film debut in a movie about a kid named Harry Potter who discovers he lives in a world of witches and wizards. Julia Louis-Dreyfus played a nymph.
pPOe TIL that In 1970, a dead sperm whale on an Oregon beach was blown up with dynamite in an attempt to get rid of the decomposing corpse. Flying debris from the blast destroyed the roof of a nearby car, and onlookers were covered with whale particles.