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TIL Tom Cruise does not permit his likeness to be used for merchandise. Nevertheless, Funko created a figure of his character Nick Morton from the 2017 film "The Mummy" without securing the rights. In response, Cruise requested the figures be cancelled. Funko recalled them, but some have been found.

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NXxl6 TIL Dutch historian Rutger Bregman spoke at Davos in 2019 to a roomful of rich people about the need for them to pay their fair share of taxes
0dQYN TIL Gastroenterologist Takanori Takebe won the 2024 Physiology Nobel Prize for discovering that mammals can breathe through their anus
dJmr TIL that a man called Zeb Quinn went missing in 2000. His car was found two weeks later, with it’s lights on, a pair of lipstick lips drawn on the rear windshield, and a live Labrador puppy inside. Zeb Quinn has never been found.
Lk7Gr TIL National Museum of American History considers "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "The X-Files" and "Star Trek" important parts of American culture, and has related props in collection
e0m55 TIL there is a species of beetle that lives in ant nests by imitating the sounds of the ant queen. These beetles feed on ant eggs, larvae and adults by piercing their mandibles into the abdomen or other soft part and sucking the contents. There appears to be no benefit to ants from the association.