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TIL Indian Removal in America was a larger genocide than the Holocaust

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a8wJ0 TIL that when naturalist Robert Plot discovered the first dinosaur fossils in 1677, he believed they belonged to giant humans that roamed the earth years ago. It wasn’t until 1824 when Oxford professor William Buckland concluded that the fossils belonged to an extinct lizard, the “Megalosaurus.”
WkZE4 TIL the "Hogwarts Express" rescued a family caught by a flood in the Scottish Highlands. Faced with a 3-mile walk in a bog for kids aged 6, 8, 10 & 12, the father called for help; police had the next train pick them up called the Jacobite, which happened to be the train from Harry Potter movies.
N7x9M TIL that when Danes living under Prussian rule was banned from flying the Danish flag, they bred a special red pig, with white stripes resembling Dannebrog, as a protest.
mxWEE TIL Osama bin Laden briefly attended a Quaker high school in Lebanon
wo6J7 TIL about Passage du Gois in France, a road that connects the mainland to Noirmoutier Island and gets submerged by water twice a day, during high tide, for around 4 hours!