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TIL that C.J. Hill (Known for her Slayers series) was the mother of TheOdd1sOut

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NZn1 TIL Australia has compulsory voting. In the 2010 Tasmanian state election, 6,000 people were fined $26 for not voting.
xWWk TIL the family of the late Paul Newman was forced off the board of the Newman’s Own charitable food company by Robert Forrester, who has since raised his own salary as CEO by 50%
OG6Z6 TIL A 72- to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behavior of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study| The most complete fossil suggests that these dinosaurs developed bird-like postures close to hatching.
PYP0G TIL that Thailand offered to send elephants to the USA during the civil war. Lincoln declined on the basis that steam engines would make the elephants more trouble than they were worth, but was extremely grateful and deferential in his reply nonetheless.
K8ZE TIL that the atlas moth, which is considered the largest moth species in the world, can spend up to 5 years in it’s cocoon but after emerging into its moth form, only lasts for 3-5 days.