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TIL An 8 foot tall Lego man named “Ego Leonard”, has mysteriously been found washing up on beaches worldwide since 2007. Ego Leonard always bears the phrase “No Real Than You Are” on his chest.

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6oQZ TIL the earliest of all prehistoric whales was a three foot long, fifty pound, dog-like creature that lived entirely on land. Its lineage is a case study as an entirely terrestrial mammal evolving into an entirely aquatic lifestyle.
70aP TIL that a cat named Simon served on a Royal Navy ship in 1949, and received a medal for raising morale, killing off a rat infestation and surviving cannon shells during his service. Hundreds attended his funeral when he died from infected wounds.
v1MP8 TIL that while filming 'Batman Begins' a drunk driver crashed into the Batmobile because he thought it was an alien spacecraft. "This poor drunken guy who didn’t have a license. [He] said he got so panicked when he saw the car that he thought aliens were landing," explained Christian Bale.
jmvp TIL Japanese police will get huge futons and roll up a person who is being violent or drunk into a little burrito and carry them back to the station to calm them down
PPPV TIL that while the American Government interned 110,000 people of Japanese decent living in America (including American citizens) the 442nd Infantry Regiment (composed of almost entirely of people of Japanese descent) became the most decorated infantry regiment in the history of the US Army.