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TIL The Tyrannosaurus Rex Lived closer in Time to the Moon Landing than it did to living with the Stegosaurus

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PY9PL TIL during the premiere of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ 241 people walked out of the theater demanding to know what the film was about. Creator Arthur C. Clarke once said, “If you understand ‘2001’ completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered.”
v17EL TIL the James Webb Space Telescope is so sensitive it could theoretically detect the heat signature of a bumble bee at the distance of the moon.
rDpe TIL a paedophile in Thailand posted a picture of himself with a swirl effect on his face, allowing the Interpol to unswirl the image back and arrest him
78Alb TIL there is a secret carpool society in Washington DC
Ype67 TIL Dr. Elsie Inglis founded the Scottish Women's Hospitals Committee in order to create a mobile army hospital staffed by women. By 1917, 4 hospitals and 14 medical units had been created, staffed by over 1000 women doctors, nurses, orderlies and drivers.