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TIL Walt Disney’s last words were “Kurt Russell.”

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QNX4a TIL: Some oil wells are drilled to a depth of 3 miles and the predictable total of U.S. oil production in 1944 was 1,601,2500,000 barrels.
J0gV TIL a woman is facing up to 10 years of imprisonment for giving water to pigs on their way to the slaughterhouse
aw4XN TIL that Steve Irwin paid for one of his security guards to go and train MMA in the USA, that security guard, Kyle Noke, would go on to fight in the UFC and credits Irwin as a major reason why he achieved his dreams.
Qpxp TIL: the birth certificate was invented as a way to verify people’s ages in order to enforce new child labor restrictions
W5Q4 TIL courts are increasingly turning to website Urban Dictionary to clarify modern slang language. It has notably been used in a supreme court sexual harrassment case in Tennessee in 2013.