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TIL That as well as Warm and Cold blooded creatures, there's also a third type called Mesothermic to which some Dinosaurs may have belonged.

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Pp4L TIL that Shingo, a small village in Japan, claims to be the burial place of Jesus Christ and his younger brother Isukiri
ne6lr TIL French Guiana situated in South America and bordered by Brazil and Suriname is, in fact, an overseas territory of France and therefore part of the European Union and uses the Euro as it's currency.
16w4O TIL Nuclear Winter as the result of worldwide nuclear war has largely been discredited by current science. It was mainly a political position to prop nuclear disarmament, based on faulty modelling and "worst-case analysis run amok".
xVDB TIL a Catholic Priest wanted by the communists lived inside the US embassy in Soviet Hungary for 15 years.
ANgVa TIL PT Barnum's intended 'Jenny Lind Hall' wasn't complete in time for the opera singer's U.S. tour. Establishing opera for the masses in the U.S., her shows were a smash hit. The theater later became NY Metropolitan Hall.