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

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9YZv7 TIL that Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody has now hit the billboard hot 100 in three separate decades.
MedYW TIL that in 1945, General George S Patton, upon the liberation of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany, forced 1,000 local citizens to tour the camp to witness firsthand the atrocities that had taken place within.
Z8KP4 TIL that in WWII, an Australian soldier removed his own appendix in the middle of a Philippine jungle in 1944, without any anaesthetic and with only the use of a mirror and an ordinary knife. The operation took 4 and a half hours and he stitched himself up with jungle fibre.
4GPJ TIL Dandelion is called that because it used to be called “dent-de-lioun” - “tooth of the lion” because of the shape of the leaf, NOT the flower’s resemblance to the mane.
paRb TIL that a total solar eclipse will pass over the entire continental United States from coast to coast in 2017