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TIL Father and son died on the same day, 14 years apart while working on Hoover Dam

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R5nK6 TIL that Godzilla’s name translates to Gorilla Whale (Gojira) in Japanese
7884P TIL Waldo from Where’s Waldo appears in a single frame of the 2006 film Apocalypto, which is set during the fall of the Mayan empire.
BB9e TIL: Mortal Kombat II was so popular when it hit the arcades that several of the machines were later installed with deadlock security panels on the back to prevent thieves from ripping the game’s motherboard straight out of the machine and taking it home.
Vbb0 TIL that up until 2 years ago, Hawaii cops were allowed to have sex with prostitutes.
X0abj TIL that the Czech polymath Jára Cimrman was on track to win The Greatest Czech TV contest in 2005, but was disqualified on account of being fictional