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TIL that a reliable way of detecting art forgeries is to test for cesium-137 and strontium-90 as these isotopes did not exist in nature prior to the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945.

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wWBJ TIL one reason there are so many weird stories out of Florida is due to their transparency laws that allow the release crime details to the media immediately
dpV8 TIL a team of scientists suppressed genes for beak development in a chicken embryo to find out what bird ancestors looked like – and the embryo grew into a chicken with the face of a dinosaur.
NXBWQ TIL eyewitness sketches aren't solely based on verbal descriptions. They are compiled using an "identikit", or a stock library of facial features (eyes, noses, etc.). The witness picks out the closest match for each feature which is then assembled into a more coherent image.
debK TIL a Raven named Jimmy has starred in over 1,000 films between the 30s and 50s and could understand several hundred words and it took him just 1 week to learn a new word, 2 weeks if it had two syllables. His footprints were enshrined in cement at a large Los Angeles pet store, alongside Lassie.
d7lB TIL in the Guns & Roses track ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’, they weren’t sure how to end the track. While Axl was listening to the loop he was saying to himself 'Where do we go now?’. The Producer suggested they just use that to fill the breakdown.