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TIL Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle was mentioned as a possible suspect in the "Piltdown Man" hoax - one of the most significant scientific hoaxes of the 20th century

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v4G4 TIL a town in Ireland hosts a fair in which a goat is crowned king for 3 days and hoisted on a 40 foot pedestal.
j6eon TIL the New Zealand army helped in making the LOTR films by filling as Soldiers and Orcs
PXRG TIL Suge Knight threatened to throw Vanilla Ice off a balcony if he didn’t sign him the rights to ‘Ice Ice Baby’. Suge used the money to fund Death Row Records
neL5P TIL The male gypsy moth can "smell" virgin female gypsy moths within a 1.8 mile (2.9km) radius
LkdZP TIL that the word Hallelujah comes from the Hebrew hallelu+Jah meaning “praise god.” It is synonymous with the Muslim phrase humdulillah, to the extent that Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews use humdullilah in place of hallelujah.