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TIL Michael Jackson wanted to play Jar Jar Binks using prosthetics.

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MeQJ7 TIL that leader of Libertarian Party of Canada ran for the President of Poland and got 23.1% of the vote. A key element of his campaign was a black briefcase – allegedly containing "secret documents" that were going to destroy his rivals' careers and that he would present when the time was due.
loRJG TIL that the most active author on r/conspiracy wrote 896,337 words, twice the length of the Lord of the Rings trilogy
X9LR TIL that the first man to survive going down Niagara Falls in a barrel died after slipping on an orange peel.
VoXZ TIL Octopi are the only conscious invertebrates and have cognitive thinking abilites, individual emotions and personalities, and even form relationships with humans.
l7xv5 TIL that the British grew a Great Hedge to prevent the smuggling of common salt from coastal regions in India to avoid paying the substantial "Salt Tax".