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TIL more people own a phone than a toothbrush

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xVDNk TIL in 16th century France, a lawyer successfully defended a group of rats in a court of law, which accused them of eating the barley-crop of local farmers. The court put up posters in nearby towns summoning the rats to court and asked the townspeople to move their cats indoors for their safety .
N7KGP TIL of Jim Haynes, the man who "invited the world over for dinner". As an American living in Paris, Jim had an open-house policy every Sunday evening for more than 40 years, where anyone was welcome at an informal dinner. It is estimated over 150.000 people attended over the years.
16g47 TIL that the US Navy once retrieved a Soviet supersonic missile that had smashed into millions of pieces, none larger than 6 inches, from the sea floor and managed to reverse-engineer it.
Ooaa TIL that goddess Aphrodite is the product of Uranus’ castrated ballsack being thrown into the sea.
lwdG TIL: Jim Jarmusch was dismayed to discover all the money he paid for the rights to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You” went to the record company, with nothing going to Hawkins himself. When the film (Stranger Than Paradise) earned a profit, he tracked down Hawkins to give him some money