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TIL that a judge sued a dry cleaner for $67 million because they lost a pair of his pants

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G4G TIL the U.S. government has specifications for its pens used by personnel: The pen consists of seven different parts and meets 16 pages of military specs, including that it be able to write for a mile with no fading and withstand temperatures up to 160 degrees and down to 40 degrees below zero.
P86w TIL that The Shawshank Redemption’s director and writer, Frank Darabont, was offered $2.5 million from Rob Reiner to let him write and direct it instead, and cast Tom Cruise as Andy and Harrison Ford as Red. Darabont refused, saying that this was his “chance to do something really great.”
j6oLN TIL Cold weather retains less water than warm weather. That's how dew appears.
76OZ TIL that Steven Bradbury, an Australian short track speed skater, won an Olympic gold medal in the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics by cruising behind his opponents and waiting until they crashed during both the semifinal and the final.
BXYL TIL that when a group of protesters asserted that Anne Frank was fictional, a concentration camp survivor and Nazi hunter named Simon Wiesenthal spend 5 years tracking down the man who arrested her to prove them wrong