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TIL Dodos were big, but not the fat birds we picture; the theory is that paintings and illustrations depicting them as such are based on overfed, captive specimens, or simply due to artistic license

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N7jME TIL that before the Civil War, Christmas was not an official holiday in the United States
NxQe TIL that the Pyramids of Giza were originally covered in white limestone
95wm TIL the Roman calendar used to have ten months and that the word October means “8th month”, November means “9th month”, and December means “10th month.”
nn09 TIL that Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
XEJE TIL the reason why you occasionally can receive radio stations from cities far outside their normal broadcast range. A phenomenon called Tropospheric Ducting acts like a lens, bending the radio waves and greatly extending the normal reception range.