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TIL of Richard Lee McNair - A criminal who escaped prison, then got stopped by a police officer while on the run and convinced him that he was just a jogger passing by

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oB4lo TIL To try to combat mosquito outbreaks, Disney World monitors coops of “sentinel chickens” that are stationed around the park. If a mosquito-borne virus shows up in the chickens’ blood, Disney doubles down on its bug-slaying efforts in the area.
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lowpG TIL that in some cultures, the 'checkmark' is used to denote wrong, or incorrect items, including Finland, Sweden and Japan.
pYEBp TIL that in 2004 the average attention span was found to be 150 seconds long. By 2012 it had declined by half to 75 seconds, and by 2018 the average attention span had decline further to just 47 seconds long.
LklVv TIL that William Shatner directed 'Star Trek V: The Final Frontier' because of a clause in his contract dating back to the original series ensuring that whatever Leonard Nimoy got—he did too. So after Nimoy directed 'Star Trek IV', Shatner insisted that he get a turn at directing a movie.