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TIL that paleontologists have no idea how dinosaurs had sex

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jN4DR TIL that although they were founded in 1926, the Harlem Globetrotters didn't play their first game in Harlem until 1968
RME4 TIL that in Ancient Rome, if people wished to commit suicide, they applied to the Senate and, if their petitions were approved, were given free hemlock.
6Ek4Z Today I learned that a Victorian man in 1875 died after accidentally swallowing a mouse. "The mouse began to tear and bite inside the man's throat and chest, and the result was that the unfortunate fellow died after a little time in horrible agony."
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