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TIL Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson in Parks & Rec) used his woodworking skills to build a wooden gazebo for the Japan House of his alma mater (Urbana-Champaign).

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dD09E TIL Inostrancevia were mammal-like reptiles which lived before dinosaurs, and some of the mammal-like reptiles evolved into modern mammals
o1Qr TIL that Chinese armed forces use crossbows at all unit levels to stop persons carrying explosives without risk of causing detonation.
N7KAM TIL that there is a bladeless wind turbine that is smaller, lighters and more that 40% more cost effective than its bladed cousins. It sits on an oscillating base and uses vortexes to “trap” air to make electricity. Best of all, it is almost completely bird-safe.
X9w6 TIL the United Stated Conducted Human Experiments in Guatemala Between 1946 and 1948. Doctors Infected Soldiers, Prostitutes, Prisoners, and Mental Patients With Syphilis and Other STDs.
pYvPO TIL that nine-banded armadillos always give birth to identical quadruplets.