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TIL that some skeletons found of now extinct species of sloth suggest some varieties used to be as large as elephants. The Megatherium being one of them.

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D1vnJ TIL about Navy airmen Frank O'Flaherty and Bruno Gaido. They were captured by the Japanese during the battle of Midway. Only after the end of the war was it discovered that they were interrogated on board the destroyer Mikagumo, then had weights tied to them and were pushed overboard to their deaths
wWAE TIL The USA throws away the equivalent of 125 school busses full of plastic drinking straws on a daily basis.
rR5P4 TIL of Dipprasad Pun, a Nepalese soldier during the War of Afghanistan who was attacked by 30 insurgents. Believing he was about to die, he expended all 400 rounds of his ammunition, launched 17 grenades, detonated a Claymore mine, and killed an attacker with his tripod, causing them to retreat.
VgN0 TIL in 1994, Actor Jack Nicholson got out of his car and smashed the windshield of another Driver’s Mercedes with a golf club for “cutting him off”. Nicholson reportedly offered an apology and a $500K check that successfully ended any criminal prosecution for the road-rage incident.
5VGe8 TIL that Domino's busiest day wasn't during a Super Bowl, but the O.J. Simpson Bronco Chase on June 17, 1994.