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TIL that in 2013 the United States government technically sued a Mongolian Tyrannosaurus Bataar skeleton

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kJ6g TIL that when Bill Nye The Science Guy’s father was a POW in Japan during WWII for four years, he made sundials to figure out the latitudinal location of the prison camp.
M5jA TIL White People in the US purchase more than twice the cheese per capita than Black or Asian people.
w7R8 TIL The largest “air force” in the world is the US Air Force and the second largest air force in the world is the US Navy.
PYLpJ TIL that in 1921 a thriving black town in Oklahoma was looted and burned to the ground by an angry white mob. Up to 300 people died that day in what is now called “The Tulsa Massacre”.
YpKWr TIL about DRACO, a broad-spectrum antiviral that induces cell death in infected cells while leaving healthy ones intact, potentially curing everything from HIV to the common cold. Unfortunately, its inventor has thus far been unable to obtain funding to move forward into clinical trials.