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TIL that as a young actor Denzel Washington played “Grapes” in Fruit of the Loom commercials

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0w145 TIL New research published in Science Advances proposes that dinosaurs were actually warm-blooded creatures. Team of scientists from Yale Uni studied the arrangement of atoms in dinosaur eggshells to determine that the mothers who carried the eggs had warmer body temperatures than their surrounding
rRgZ0 TIL the reversing falls of the St John River in New Brunswick, Canada where not only does the river change flow direction during the day due to the incoming water from the changing tides in the Bay of Fundy it also becomes still for short periods called slack tides where the flow forces are equal.
xnlk TIL that during the 1995 OJ Simpson trial, the ABC, NBC and CBS networks nightly news broadcasts gave more air time to the details of that case than to the Bosnian War and the Oklahoma City bombing combined.
wLVN6 TIL russian luitenant colonel Stanislav Petrov went down in history as the man who single-handedly saved the world from all-out nuclear war when he called out an false allarm when the soviet missile detection system claimed six US nuclear missiles have been launched.
4evg TIL a judge dismissed animal-cruelty charges against a police officer accused of sticking his penis into the mouths of five calves in 2006, claiming a grand jury couldn’t infer whether the cows had been “tormented” or “puzzled” by the situation or even irritated that they’d been duped out of a meal.