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TIL that dinosaur fossils can “opalize” rather than fossilize.

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WQnN TIL In Denmark you can get two doses a day of lab grade heroin for free from the gov’t. The result of this program lowered crime rates, saving tax payers $16,122 per addict in 2005
kyd TIL Bertrand Russell survived a plane crash at the age of 76, in which 19 of the 43 passengers died. Russell survived because he was seated in the smoking section, claiming before the flight that “If I cannot smoke, I shall die.”
jYN TIL that when the Spanish asked the Mayans what their land was named, they replied “Yucatán” which literally translates to “I don’t understand you.”
e8DD TIL in a letter called the Ashtiname, Muhammad called on followers of Islam to protect Christians “in any place they may dwell.” Violators would be regarded as having “despised [God’s] Religion, and made himself deserving of His Curse, whether he is a Sultan or any other believer of Islam.”
QNvbE TIL Chris Pratt worked as a daytime stripper and then was homeless in Maui