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TIL that Roly-Polys or Pill Bugs are terrestrial crustaceans and are more closely related to lobsters, crabs, and shrimps

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nkoW TIL Josip Broz Tito fed up with Stalin sending assassins wrote openly, “Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle (…) If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”
16yKX TIL test audiences didn't like the original ending of Fatal Attraction because Glenn Close's character framed Michael Douglas' character for murder & took her own life. They wanted her to get what "she deserved." Director Adrian Lyne reportedly only agreed to film a new ending when paid $1.5 million
Oo5m1 TIL paper recycling was first recorded in 1031, when Japanese shops sold repulped paper.
Ooj4e TIL that there is s fungus called xylaria polymorpha which looks like dead man fingers protruding from the ground.
MnbW TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all their ink cartridges.