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TIL the judge presiding over a lawsuit brought against Eminem delivered the judgment in the form of a rap. It finished: ‘It is therefore this court’s ultimate position / That Eminem is entitled to summary disposition.’

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N7bBQ TIL that engineers have developed a ‘plastic’ which biodegrades in a month and won’t cause choking if eaten.
5VoD8 TIL head lice and humans might have shared a mutualistic relationship together
ZpwKR TIL there’s a baseball diamond on Area 51
A4x4 TIL: Edgar Allen Poe’s character Richard Parker who is eaten in a shipwreck in his 1838 book. In 1884 an English ship sinks and the name of the boy who is eaten is Richard Parker.
9YVQG TIL that the distinctive nose of the Shinkansen 500 bullet train prevents sonic booms whenever it exits a tunnel and was discovered when scientists studied the shape of a kingfisher's beak to learn how it hit the water at high speed