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TIL that Kinder Surprise eggs are illegal to import into the USA

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0w145 TIL New research published in Science Advances proposes that dinosaurs were actually warm-blooded creatures. Team of scientists from Yale Uni studied the arrangement of atoms in dinosaur eggshells to determine that the mothers who carried the eggs had warmer body temperatures than their surrounding
aKrA TIL that In 70,000 B.C. Human beings almost went extinct; dwindling to as few as 40 ‘breeding pairs’ after the eruption of the Toba supervolcano!
4X1N5 TIL the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is the champion among fish - it can reach a length of 13.5 m and a weight of 34 t! It is assumed that it can grow significantly more. It lives in the open waters of tropical oceans and it is rarely found in waters that have a temperature below 22 ° C.
YpjYG TIL in 2003 voters in Georgia approved the adoption the Confederate flag as the Flag of Georgia with the only change being the addition of a yellow state seal
M1G0 TIL that Arthur Ganson built a kinetic sculpture of connected gears called “Machine with Concrete.” The 1st gear turns at 200 rpm and the last gear is stuck in concrete. It can still run because each gear set reduces the turning speed, meaning that the last gear only revolves every 2 trillion years.