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TIL That All Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded

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J1Mo8 TIL Brides used to remove their entire teeth on their wedding days as a wedding gift.
XEEN8 When two black holes collide, the noises scientists hear are birdlike.
j6VVR TIL that priest Father Damien worked in Hawaii for 16 years, providing comfort to the lepers. He built homes and he treated lepers with his medical expertise. He prayed and comforted the dying. He later contracted leprosy but continued to give to the people and helped improve an orphanage.
4X666 TIL in 1977 a group of Chicago Sun-Times journalists bought a dive bar and used it as a front to uncover and expose political corruption and payoffs.
GYMo7 TIL that ancient Egyptians believed in afterlife as the dead's heart was weighted against the feather of Maat, If the dead's heart balanced with the feather of Maat, they would be admitted to heavenly paradise, if their heart was heavier than the feather their souls would be permanently destroyed.