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TIL that an Australian man waited 416 days to see what happens after his ipod timer passes 9999 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds

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mx8oO TIL when the new character Elmrya was forcefully added to the show “Pinky and the Brain” due to executives wanting to liven it up, the writers added the lyrics: “So Pinky and the Brain/ Share a new domain/ It’s what the network wants/ Why bother to complain?” to its theme song.
4kkRX TIL About retired South Korean boxer Byun Jung-il who lost his bantam weight match at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Upset by the loss he refused to leave the ring for over an hour to the point that officials turned out the lights in the auditorium until he left.
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6Enr8 TIL Jesse Tafero was executed for two murders he did not commit. At his execution the electric chair malfunctioned, and the wrong sponge for conductivity was used, causing flames to shoot out of his head. The process took 7 minutes. After his execution, Walter Rhodes confessed to the murders.
rNYBd TIL about the Löwenmensch or Lion Man of Germany. About 12-in. tall, this statue of an anthropomorphic cave lion is about 35,000 to 40,000 years old and was carved from a mammoth tusk. The oldest statue ever discovered, it was found in the same caves as the earliest musical instruments.