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TIL that Jonathan Lee Riches got the Guinness world record for having filed the highest number of lawsuits in the world. When he heard of this, he sued the Guinness Book of World Records

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DWAv TIL that after flights were grounded on 9/11, one plane was allowed to fly. It carried anti-venom from San Diego to Florida to save the life of a snake keeper suffering from a deadly taipan bite. The only other taipan anti-venom was in New York.
L9yv TIL Former NHL Player Nicklas Grossmann Had His Name Misspelled On His Jersey For Over 5 Years Because He Was Too Shy To Ever Correct It
QJnAd TIL of the Beefalo, a 3/8 bison and 5/8 domestic cattle hybrid designed to mix the flavor and characteristics of beef and bison meat.
E1P5w TIL Biologists are fighting malaria using genetically modified mosquitos which are immune and thus incapable of transmitting it. In other words, the easiest way to cure malaria in humans is to cure mosquitos instead.
wLK51 TIL in the 19th Century, a turnspit dog was a short-legged, long-bodied dog bred to run on a wheel to turn meat for even cooking