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TIL a Minnesota man was busted for building a “vibrator bomb” he intended to give an ex-girlfriend for Christmas. This vibrator was filled with gunpowder, BB shot and buckshot and he said“when the device was inserted into the female he would pull the trigger and it would blow them up.”

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R6va TIL that the film Titan A.E had an estimated budget of $90 Million. In the end the film only grossed $36.8 million. According to the supervisor of the film, Titan A.E. lost $100 million for 20th Century Fox. After the film’s failure, Fox Animation Studios was shut down.
JYvl TIL that Brad Pitt’s crazy, rapid speech in Twelve Monkeys was perfected by director Terry Gilliam taking away Pitt’s cigarettes.
ADpEB TIL that long before DDOS or spam-mail attacks there was the infamous "Black Fax". Senders would attack the receiver with completely black pages to occupy their fax machine and making them use up all their expensive ink/toner and paper.
OovJ7 TIL that in 1758, Carl Linnaeus, in his book Systema Naturæ, divided humans into five "subspecies:" the white, sanguine, and powerful Europeans; the yellow, melancholy, and severe Asians; the red, choleric, and stubborn Americans; the black, stony, and lax Africans; and the "wild, monstrous" others.
gMng7 TIL that there is an ethnic group in the Philippines,called the Sama-Bajaus, intentionally rupturing their eardrums at an early age to help them when they are diving. They can stay as long as 13 mins under water at 200 feet.