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TIL that in 2002 a British scientist set out to find the funniest joke in the world - and found it.

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OonM1 TIL Jon "NEVERDIE" Jacobs mortgaged his home to buy a virtual asteroid for $100,000. In 2005, this was the most valuable virtual item ever sold. This landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records for owning the most expensive virtual item, which he later sold for $635,000.
YpOwW TIL that prawn and shrimp are not the same animal - they're not even closely related. They are in two different sub-orders of decapoda. As an example of what that means, cats and dogs are in different sub-orders of carnivora.
6a9Q TIL of Eunus, a slave-magician who joked on stage that he planned to overthrow Roman rule and become king of Sicily. Then he led a huge slave uprising, and kept his promises to spare the lives of those who had left him tips.
graY8 TIL 2 teens secretly scaled the Acropolis on 5/30/41 in Nazi-occupied Greece & stole the Nazi flag that was flying atop it. Their heroic act of defiance inspired Greeks to believe themselves capable of resisting the Nazis & their occupation of Greece. The teens were never caught & died of old age!
GDVN TIL that there is a Scandinavian company that is working on a way to translate what a dog is thinking using EEG-sensors and micro computers. They already have a prototype available.