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TIL that the so-called second shoe print at the murder scene that helped acquit OJ Simpson turned out to be just a pattern in the cement.

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wbXW TIL There’s no word for a group of Koalas because they are solitary animals
8nQV TIL Dick Jones nearly drowned while reading his “underwater” lines in the film Pinocchio, as he was “lying on his back while a director poured water into his mouth.”
woAKP TIL that Gucci's iconic cane handles and use of materials like hemp and jute were thanks to the trade embargo placed on Italy by the League of Nations under Mussolini's rule. This was a way to circumvent the limited access to materials like leather.
LQld0 TIL that walnut trees produce a chemical called juglone that prevents tomatoes from producing fruit.
PYeyE TIL that, under Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire was a Meritocracy (government by people promoted on a basis of Merit rather than Nepotism)