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TIL crocodiles are more closely related to birds than to other reptiles, and modern science classifies birds as a kind of reptile

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ne7DG TIL the term "meme" was created by Richard Dawkins in 1976 as a shortened version of the Greek word mimeme, which means imitated thing.
x6yl1 TIL people who smoke about 1 cig/day have about 40-50% of the excess risk associated with smoking 20/day (heart attack and stroke)
WkbkL TIL about 78-year-old twin sisters Margaret and Marjorie Barthel — who were purposefully and lovingly feeding rats, nurturing an exponentially multiplying population of rats on the affluent Westside of LA, which experts believe ranged from tens of thousands to as many as a half-million Rats
mxY1p TIL Australia once had a tumbleweed so large they named it "hairy panic"
Xw6P TIL American soldiers and Boy Scouts regularly burn the US Flag, as the most dignified way to dispose of it when the flag has been damaged/become unfit to represent the United States.