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TIL that birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the mass extinction, because they were small enough to burrow, had beaks and were smarter than other small beaked dinosaurs.
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Submitted November 22, 2021 at 11:41PM by Rough_Moment9800
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TIL that in 1949 Simon the cat was awarded a military medal after surviving injuries from a cannon shell, raising morale, and killing off a rat infestation during the Yangtze Incident.
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Submitted November 22, 2021 at 08:38PM by ElvisDuck
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TIL F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby (1925) was a commercial failure upon release and the author died in 1940 believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 02:56AM by adminsplzdontban
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TIL Bob Barker is still alive (99 years old!) and in 2015 was brought out as the host of The Price is Right, a job he handed over to Drew Carey in 2007, as a part of their April's Fool's episode
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 03:52AM by The_Priceinator
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TIL of Cain's Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers, a 1934 mystery novel printed with its 100 pages out of order. To solve the puzzle, readers must determine the correct page order as well the names of both the six murderers and six victims. The mystery has only ever been solved by three people.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 04:11AM by NJJbadscience
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TIL that On July 21, 1972, George Carlin was arrested and charged with violating obscenity laws after performing his famous "Seven Dirty Words" routine at Milwaukee's Summerfest. He would go on to be arrested a total of seven times for reciting that same routine.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 05:54AM by marlonbrandto
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TIL that the creators of "Babar the Elephant" had a son who was a rising classical piano star, but gave it all up in 1970s to become a silent Benedictine monk. He is still alive today, residing in a monastery in En-Calcat, France.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 05:32AM by janmayeno
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TIL that the yearly allotment for Olive Garden's Never Ending Pasta Pass sells out in seconds. Some passholders have annual get-togethers and compete to see who can eat the most meals at Olive Garden during the 9-week period. The record is 140 meals in 56 days.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 05:11AM by Fettekatze
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TIL Lord of the rings director (Peter Jackson) holds the largest private collection of WWI aero planes in the world.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 06:49AM by Sergeant-Mittens
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TIL that a judge once threw out a British Airways lawsuit against Ryanair for their "Expensive BAstards!" ad campaign by ruling "the complaint amounts to this: Ryanair exaggerated in suggesting BA is five times more expensive, because BA is only three times more expensive."
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 07:40AM by Mega_Dunsparce
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TIL that the gentleman to first accurately ascertain the age of the earth Clair Cameron Patterson also successfully took on the petrol giants to put an end to poisonous leaded gasoline. A true pioneer and hero largely forgotten by history.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 11:03AM by Ultra_Low_FRQ
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TIL The most expensive animated movie ever made, Tangled, cost $49,059 per second of animation.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 11:28AM by haddock420
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TIL that November 23rd is Wolfenoot, a holiday invented by a 7-year-old boy to celebrate dogs and people who are nice to dogs.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 02:01PM by TBTabby
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TIL that Long Island is a "terminal moraine", which is the pile of debris that glaciers pushed along as they advanced south during previous ice ages. You can see two set of hills that formed from glacier movement.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 02:27PM by MajesticAlbatross516
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TIL that astronomers estimate that for every grain of sand on Earth, there are roughly 10,000 stars in the universe
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 01:36PM by RhllorTheLordOfLight
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TIL that in 1916, a construction worker, "sandhog" Marshall Mabey, while building a NYC subway tunnel was blown out of the tunnel through a breach and shot up out of bed of the East River and into the air on a geyser. He survived. Two others who were with him did not.
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 03:56PM by 0ttr
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TIL an average horse can actually produce ~ 15 horsepower (hp)
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Submitted November 23, 2021 at 04:17PM by p33k4y
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