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TIL that a Brontosaurus skull has never been found.

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Bggwe TIL that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald likely sunk due to the freak of nature event called "the three sisters" where three abnormally huge waves suddenly appear and completely wash away the boats. The same type of freak events occur in finance, quantum mechanics and liquid helium.
OG8mX TIL that the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest building in the world for over 3800 years of the ~4600 years since its construction. It was not until 1311 that the spire of an English cathedral was built higher.
GAXKQ TIL The Osage killings were a series of murders in the 1920s targeting wealthy Osage Native Americans due to oil wealth, revealing a disturbing conspiracy for financial gain.
rBBo TIL that in the 1999 movie the Matrix, Neo’s passport expires on September 11, 2001.
4X4lX TIL While Pope Gregory IX was in power, he declared that cats were to be associated with devil worship and had them exterminated. The disappearance of cats is believed to have helped rats spread Bubonic plague or black death.