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TIL Seals often visit Loch Ness, swimming up river from the ocean.

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grNBy TIL the reception to the original novel version of "The Spy Who Loved Me" was so bad that Ian Fleming epressly forbade the producers of the James Bond films from ever making a direct adaptation - only the title and the main henchman "Horror" who became Jaws remained.
Brjlx TIL of the "cargo cult" belief, in which pre-industrial societies mimic western activities, such as the building of mock airstrips, and performing daily rituals such as dressing as parading soldiers, which they believe will cause spiritual agents to deliver highly desired cargo such as in WW2 arenas
oRnWr TIL a Denver motel owner secretly recorded hotel guests under the auspices of performing a quasi-scientific study on guests' sexual acts.
R57Na TIL that in 1999 a British man, angered at being charged £20 for going £10 overdrawn, legally changed his name to "Yorkshire Bank plc are Fascist Bastards" just to receive a return cheque in that name to settle the account.
8e9eP TIL an avid cricket fan, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger founded Jagged Internetworks as a way to better cover the sport on the internet.