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TIL Will Ferrell turned down $29 million for an Elf sequel. Which is 15 years old btw!

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QNyRp TIL Allen's rule, which describes a pattern in animals' lankiness and size (surface-area to volume ratio) across related species, according to hotter and colder climates
V4AZ TIL Richard Kruspe, one of the members of the Band Rammstein, was an escapee from East Germany.
01Pp TIL That the Soviet Union, and now Russia, have a fail-deadly system which automatically launches a full scale nuclear attack in the event that authoritative command is incapacitated. It uses light, seismic, radioactive, and overpressure systems to activate the launch. It is still in use today.
LKEp TIL American murderer Richard Honeck was jailed in 1899 and not released until 1963. During his 64 years in prison, he received one letter and two visitors. “I’d have to be pretty careful if I got paroled,” he said later. “There must be an awful lot of traffic… compared with what I remember.”
0oWA TIL that Coconuts are so important in the Cook Islands they ask about them in the census. For the record, each home eats ten coconuts per week… and feeds 75 to their animals.