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TIL that Amazon owns IMDB and is used to sell their movies.
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TIL that during the time Jack Johnson (the first black world champion heavyweight boxer) was incarcerated in Leavenworth, he modified a wrench for tightening loosened fastening devices and received a patent for his improvements on April 18, 1922, known as US Patent 1,413,121.
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TIL the US military has a 26 page document dictating the makeup, size, and consistency of brownies and oatmeal cookies.
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TIL that, in 1838, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story in which four shipwreck survivors were forced to eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker. 46 years later, the situation was mirrored uncannily in real life, as four shipwreck survivors were forced to eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker.
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TIL a fourteen year old opened fire on a group of praying students, then dropped his gun and said, “Kill me, please. I can’t believe I did that.”
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TIL, Sea World San Diego managed to keep Blue Sharks, a beautiful pelagic species, in captivity. Until they added bull sharks, which ate the blues. No one has managed to copy the feat since.