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TIL that the rule that you can’t end a sentence w/ a preposition was created by a guy in order to discredit old playwrights (like Shakespeare) because no one wanted to watch his plays.

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awno TIL That a Scientists once carved some meat out of 36,000-year-old baby bison and made a stew, The stew was not only edible, but deemed “acceptable.”
9YeDG TIL of a £4m art heist Manchester in 2003 , including a Van Gogh painting. It is believed the culprit tipped off the police and revealed the location of the stolen artwork. Stating that his intentions were not to steal , but to highlight woeful security.
VNk4 TIL: Some lakes are stocked with fish by dropping hundreds of fish out of an airplane flying over.
9YwGG TIL the long extinct Dire Wolf (Canis Dirus, "fearsome dog") is the largest species of the genus Canis known to have existed.
grmOA TIL that DuPont, who makes Teflon products like non-stick cookware, had been dumping toxic waste chemicals from Teflon production in the waters of Parkersburg, West Virginia for decades.