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TIL About The Billion Dollar Japanese Shrimp Ponzi Scheme
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TIL that the commonly known information regarding Daddy Long Legs as being extremely venomous with brittle teeth not strong enough to bite humans is actually a myth. Scientists have no idea how this factoid spread.
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TIL of Pedro Lopez, serial killer convicted of murdering 110 girls and later released from prison in 1998 after 16 years in prison
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TIL that in WWII, an Australian soldier removed his own appendix in the middle of a Philippine jungle in 1944, without any anaesthetic and with only the use of a mirror and an ordinary knife. The operation took 4 and a half hours and he stitched himself up with jungle fibre.
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TIL Tommy Lee Jones Really Hated Working With Jim Carrey while filming Batman Forever. Jim Carrey said hello to him during the set and Tommy Lee's response was "'I hate you. I really don't like you... I cannot sanction your buffoonery!"
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TIL that critically acclaimed author Brandon Sanderson is also a lecturer at BYU and posts his lectures for free on YouTube for any aspiring authors/curious people