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TIL Astrologers do not agree on when the Age of Aquarius will start or even if it has already started

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j8Xp TIL that the longest prison sentence ever requested was 384,912 years of jail, against a 22 years old postman accused of failing to deliver 42,768 letters
JxdB TIL about the blue-ringed octopus, which despite being only 5-8 inches in size, carries enough venom to kill 26 humans within minutes. The bites are tiny and painless, with some victims not aware they were bit until paralysis sets in.
R5bE7 TIL when the directors of Harold and Kumar (2004) took their movie to film producers, the producers said "we really love this movie", but wanted to change the main characters from Korean and Indian to "a White guy and a Black dude"
0dMZ5 TIL Guanxi (关系, guānxi) is a Chinese term for an individual's social network of mutually beneficial personal and business relationships. Guanxi relationships are almost never established purely through formal meetings but must also include spending time to get to know each other.
loblK TIL that the active ingredient of Febreze is derived from corn.