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TIL in 1999, a Las Vegas couple were unable to come to a decision on how to split up their Beanie Baby collection during their divorce settlement. A judge ordered them to dump their collection on the floor of the court and take turns picking them one-by-one.

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KO8Jw TIL Members of a chimpanzee troop in Senegal have been observed by scientists fashioning tree branches into spears and using them as hunting tools.
ZpaJv TIL more than 300 million people globally don’t have a single friend, according to Gallup data
VlvG TIL The Japanese Giant Hornet is woven from the fabric of nightmares: It’s the size of your thumb and sprays flesh-melting poison in your eyes that also has a pheromone cocktail in it that’ll call every hornet in the hive to come over and sting you to death
vPenj TIL of Jackass Annie Road. In 1954 doctors told "Jackass Annie" Wilkins (63) of Minot, Maine that she would soon die. Wanting to see California, she rode a horse there and back over 17 months. Wilkins wrote a book about her adventure and lived until 1980. Minot renamed a street after her.
OGyK4 TIL that a pub in London was illegally demolished just days before it was to be listed as an historic site. They developer was forced to rebuild it brick by brick to its original state.