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TIL That in 1890 Congress passed a bill turning Denver’s first cemetery into a park. Family members were given 90 days to remove the remains. The undertaker responsible for transferring the unclaimed bodies then used child sized coffins. Hacking limbs from the remains so they would fit.
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TIL The Arabian Oryx became extinct in the wild by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private reserves, and was reintroduced into the wild starting in 1980. In 2011, it was the first animal to revert to vulnerable status on the IUCN Red List after previously being listed as extinct
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TIL The Royal Canadian Mint is issuing a glow-in-the-dark dinosaur quarter.
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TIL that Prince's estate released the original demos of the Bangles hit Manic Monday and Sinéad O'Connors, Nothing compares to U with rare rehearsal footage.
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TIL: A Blue whales tongue can weight as much as an elephant!