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TIL in Jurassic Park, the velociraptor sounds are actually turtles having sex

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69QMl TIL Thomas Jefferson regularly attended many different churches and declared "I am of a sect by myself" unlike many of the other devoted founding fathers.
m1rAO TIL that when Nikita Khrushchev visited America in 1959, he gave an impassioned speech where he complained about not being allowed to visit Disneyland.
p8d8A TIL that Turkey Vultures have been & sometimes are still used to detect natural gas leaks from pipelines; the odor that gas companies add to gas (so we can detect it since it's odorless) is the same as rotting flesh, which leads the vultures to congregate in the sky in the area of the leak.
epEQD TIL that any shape made entirely of straight lines can be made from a folded piece of paper and a single straight cut. (Fold and cut theorem) (VSauce short)
a8B1N TIL an estimated 1 of every 8 workers in the USA has at some point been employed by McDonald's