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TIL that in 2005 scientists discovered a dinosaur tail preserved in amber. It was filled with feathers.

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J1Ma1 TIL opossums always give birth to an odd number of babies, because they have an odd number of nipples. All other mammals have typically have an even number of both.
d84Gd TIL a pilot of a mail carrier plane once flew upside down for an extended of period of time to disorient the disgruntled employee trying to murder him and his copilot with a hammer and speargun.
VBMBQ TIL that actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was the key person behind a WW2 water-borne deception force that created enough German uncertainty that they held back an entire German Reserve Division in Sicily at the time of the Allied landings there. Called the Beach Jumpers, also known as the "BJ factor".
9BJr TIL a man was wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison even though two lawyers received a confession from their client but couldn’t say anything because of attorney-client privilege prevented them from implicating their client.
D1dBp TIL since the popularity of the Brazilian bikini wax became mainstream, pubic lice have become an endangered species