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TIL that about 15% of all Tyrannosaurus rex fossil specimens show signs of having been infected with or killed by trichomoniasis, a parasitic infection in the jaw that leaves visible holes in the bone. Modern-day birds, such as falcons and hawks, can suffer from similar trichomoniasis infections.

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R77e8 TIL that while on death row at San Quintin, Stanley ‘Tookie” Williams was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature for children’s books he wrote while in prison.
oRAjK TIL Ryan Reynolds paid $10,000 of his own money for the right to wear a shirt with The Golden Girl’s Bea Arthur on it in Deadpool. The estate agreed for a donation in that amount to a charity of their choosing. Ryan paid it himself because he felt you couldn’t have Deadpool without Bea Arthur.
9bYp TIL that a bilingual individual can be dyslexic in one language, but not the other
ZjbQ TIL that Monty Python’s Life of Brian was marketed in Sweden as “so funny it was banned in Norway.”
Oo6g TIL GZA of Wu Tang Clan is writing a series of albums dealing with science so as to get more people hooked on science.