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TIL paleontologists found a 99-million year old tick entombed in amber and grasping the feather of a dinosaur

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R7x16 TIL researchers did an experiment in 1999 on rats to see how long they could live without sleep. They mostly lasted 2 weeks of this torture before succumbing.
MeAWV TIL that Underneath the streets of Beijing, there are over a million people who live in nuclear bunkers.
MaEW TIL all telephone service in the US and Canada was silenced for one minute on August 4th, 1922 to mark the funeral of Alexander Graham Bell
lorjG TIL that the Easter Island heads, or Moai, are actually full-length figures. The bodies have been buried by shifting soil and sediment, creating the illusion that each sculpture stops at the neck.
ADM7w TIL Plague doctors rarely cured their patients and weren't licensed medical doctors; instead, they served to count the number of people infected with the plague for demographic purposes.