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TIL that in 1987, the movie Mannequin made more at the box office than Spaceballs, The Princess Bride, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, and Raising Arizona.

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d8geQ TIL that between years 4000 and 3500 BCE the Tripolye culture centered around modern Moldova in Eastern Europe have built the largest settlements in the world at the time, inhabited by 20,000 to 46,000 people. Cities of this size only reappeared in Mesopotamia a millenium later.
p8WaO TIL Arsenic used to be so undetectable and popular a poison that it was nicknamed the "inheritance powder"
RpB7 TIL that North Korea uses a fax machine to send threats to South Korea.
dPV9 TIL that during construction of a railway in Uganda, two Tsavo lions halted progression by repeatedly killing workers at night. Deaths were estimated to be 135.
1lOP TIL: Cops can keep anything they seize, even if you are proven innocent. (In certain states)