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TIL - There is a secret room behind Mount Rushmore designed to store US treasured documents

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Z88oa TIL the velociraptors from Jurassic Park were actually suits worn by actors, and not an animatronic or CGI.
Xlp8 TIL that mothers produce different breast milk recipes depending on whether they have had a son or a daughter
GRy1 TIL in 1968 a US Army Batallion raped, maimed, and killed over 350 unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children. Of the 26 soldiers charged, only one was convicted and only served 3.5 years in house arrest.
1ewO TIL one of mathematician John von Neumann’s lecturers said “Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid of. If in the course of a lecture I stated an unsolved problem, the chances were he’d come to me at the end of the lecture with the complete solution scribbled on a slip of paper.”
4jpN TIL that Cadburys lost more than £6m after changing the Creme egg recipe