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TIL the longest filibuster in US history (a process of delaying a bill passing by speaking in the Senate until you want to stop) was over 24 hours (24 hours and 18 minutes). This was an attempt to delay The Civil Rights Act of 1957.

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kOX9E TIL the producers of "Strange Bedfellows" sued Universal Studios, claiming that "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" had over 100 common plot points to their film, released three years prior - only to discover that the first draft of the script was written before production started on Bedfellows
6En7W TIL about Martin Joe Laurello, aka Human Owl and Bobby the Boy with the Revolving Head, a German-American man who could turn his head 180 degrees
Lk050 TIL of co-emperors Caracalla & Geta,who hated each other.At a meeting set by their mother, Caracalla had Geta killed.Caracalla then killed any who knew Greta.Over 20,000 were killed.It became a capital crime to even say "Greta".Years later he sacked a city because they held a satire of the murder.
epdbL TIL that 20% of scientific genetics research papers have errors due to Microsoft Excel's auto-formatting of gene names into dates
YpbxG TIL that Def Leppard's drummer Rick Allen's left arm was amputated in 1984 after he was involved in a car crash. He continues to play with one arm and was named one of the top 10 drummers of all time by Gigwise.