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TIL Komodo dragons are actually venomous rather than, as long thought, poisoning their victims with the bacteria in their saliva. Turns out, according to one researcher, “that whole bacteria stuff has been a scientific fairy tale”. The venom works slowly and makes the victim too weak to fight.

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Nlw6 TIL that 7 out of the top 10 most densely populated cities in the Unites States are located in New Jersey.
GYXJG TIL that before Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide, he helped free a Colorado woman who was convicted of murder despite her being handcuffed in the back of a police car at the time. She would have served a life sentence without parole and was freed just one month after his death.
4XGg5 TIL that since the 1800s, the decade with the highest rate of assassinations of heads of state around the world was the 1970s, and on average most assassinations occur in October.
1EPV TIL John Lasseter was fired from Disney in 1983 for pushing too hard for computer animation. When Disney bought Pixar in 2006, Lasseter was given a $5 million signing bonus, a $2.5 million salary, and control of all Disney’s animation projects.
DQ7oJ Today I learned Forest Gump was based off a book.