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TIL There are no dinosaur bones in the Grand Canyon

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ADy0n TIL that Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to Fight aliens together. Reagan was also a Sci-fi fan and appointed many sci-fi writers to government think-tanks.
nWdKr TIL that in 2006, paleontologists officially named a dinosaur Dracorex hogwartsia, meaning "Dragon King of Hogwarts." The skull’s spiky appearance reminded them of the dragons described in the Harry Potter books. However, later research suggested it likely wasn’t a separate species.
yBPp TIL that the winter crew of Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station watches The Thing (1982) on the first day of Winter, every year.
d8vX8 TIL the three oldest living people in the UK were all born within a day of each other!
wokYM TIL housecats are responsible for an annual bird mortality, estimated to be 1.3 to 4.0 billion. And mammal mortality likely 6.3 to 22.3 billion individuals. In the US alone.