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TIL over 40% of US adults believe humans and dinosaurs coexisted

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6EJOw TIL many people in ancient Europe believed in the existence of vegetable lambs that grew as plants in Asia and had blood and flesh like an animal. The legend comes from the cotton plant, which was unknown in Europe
kOMwd TIL That Rankin/Bass, the company behind many classic Christmas movies such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, often outsourced the traditional animation aspects of their films to Japanese studios. One of those was a studio called Topcraft, which employed a young artist named Hayao Miyazaki
VBpRZ Today I learned the person that attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford in 1975 is not only still alive, but has been out of prison for 16 years.
R5VB4 TIL a significant part of what is now Belgium skipped Christmas in 1582, going from December 20th on the Julian calendar to December 31st on the Gregorian calendar.
gMZWb TIL that Monty Python's "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" is the top requested funeral song in the U.K.