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TIL Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa’s son, is being sued by his father’s estate in a trademark dispute for using the Zappa name.

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1mZX TIL that eating lychees, especially unripe, can trigger a fatal brain swelling (encephalopathy) in malnourished children.
lM07 TIL Bryan Singer convinced all the main actors in The Usual Suspects that they were Keyser Soze. They didn’t realize they weren’t until they saw the film (end of interview).
Z5Yv TIL that in the United States, Asians earn the highest average salary by race. (repost-self)
Var8 TIL Dutch Harbor, Alaska is plagued by bald eagles, who attack people, dig through dumpsters for food and generally make a nuisance of themselves. They call them Dutch Harbor Pigeons and they can’t do anything about them because they are an endangered species.
wMGW TIL In the 1960s Pakistan briefly considered changing its traffic system from driving on the left to the right. However, camel trains often drove through the night while their drivers were dozing. The difficulty in teaching old camels new tricks was decisive in forcing Pakistan to reject the change.