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TIL that the character Sarah in the Land Before Time is actually named Cera…as in triCERAtops.

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RRE1 TIL that the American Gothic painting by Grant Wood is not husband/wife, but father/daughter.
M7x7V TIL the first American stealth fighter was inspired by a paper published by a Soviet scientist on radar reflection deemed to have "no significant military or economic value."
awdpN TIL President Jimmy Carter was attacked by a "killer rabbit" on April 20, 1979.
Eal7 TIL of HitchBOT, a robot designed to rely on humans to get from place to place. It successfully hitched rides across Canada and Germany before attempting to thumb its way from Boston to San Francisco. The experiment ended in Philadelphia when vandals left HitchBOT decapitated on a street corner.
wLPpP TIL that from atop Telescope Peak in Death Valley, CA, one can see both the highest point (Mt Whitney) and the lowest point (Badwater Basin) in the Continental US.