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TIL a mummified dinosaur was found in Alberta in 2011

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D1l1r TIL Eddie Murphy has a daughter with former Spice Girl Melanie Brown. Murphy had initially denied it was his child until a DNA test proved he was the father.
R7Mj4 TIL that a holocaust denial group promised $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to deliberately kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money plus an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.
R5N96 Til there is increasing evidence in favor of protective effects of coffee consumption in development and progression of liver disease
KOxDw TIL that in 1196 AD, Al-Aziz Uthman, Saladin's son and the Sultan of Egypt, attempted to demolish the pyramids, starting with that of Menkaure. Workmen recruited to demolish the pyramid stayed at their job for eight months, but found it almost as expensive to destroy as to build. They mostly failed.
mxgwy TIL that the wandering albatross can travel 10,000 miles (16,090 km) without flapping its wings even once.