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TIL there is a service that lets you watch movies in your home the day they are released in theaters. Cost? $35,000 for the box, plus $500 per movie and two fingerprints

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xr9k TIL Elephant populations aren’t the only ones being threatened by unsustainable poaching. Elephant poachers are also targeting vultures. it is becoming increasingly common for poachers to poison the carcass of elephants they hunt, so that the circling birds don’t give away the location of the kill.
REWw TIL The the term “Taco Tuesday” is legally owned by Taco John’s and they have issued hundreds of cease and desist letters demanding companies stop holding Taco Tuesdays.
XYeX TIL while on duty at a Soviet nuclear attack warning station in 1983, Stanislav Petrov’s computer indicated the US had fired several missles. He decided his computer was faulty and urged against a launch. He was right, averting nuclear war, but was not rewarded and was reprimanded by his superiors.
0J8M TIL eighty percent of all animal species on Earth have six or more legs.
e0AJ5 TIL; the dingy blue lights in some public toilets is to prevent addicts from injecting heroin as the blue light makes it much more difficult to see veins