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TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci played a significant role in the founding of modern paleontology

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R7Oe4 TIL the words "female" and "male" are etymologically unrelated. "Male" is derived indirectly from the Latin "masculus" meaning masculine, and "female" is derived from the Medieval Latin "femella".
awneA TIL sci-fi author Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to friend and famed A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 60s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”
jNBAp TIL that the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" cost so much to make and promote that MGM did not profit from it until a 1949 re-release
OGEVR Today I Learned that the longest judicial trial in the history of the United States was the Pizza Connection Trial, where the Sicilian Mafia processed Heroin and Morphine for sale in Pizza Parlors during the 70's and 80's
woYe1 TIL that the world's oldest known piece of chewing gum is over 5,700 years old and was made from birch bark tar.