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TIL in 2013, a prisoner in Sweden escaped “because he had a toothache and wanted to go to the dentist.” He broke out prison, visited the dentist, and turned himself back in where he received an extra day to his month-long sentence as punishment.

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l7eL7 TIL early American colonists once "stood staring in disbelief at the quantities of fish." One man wrote "there was as great a supply of herring as there is water. In a word, it is unbelievable, indeed, indescribable, as also incomprehensible, what quantity is found there. One must behold oneself."
E1lAX TIL that the band Guster tried to thwart "pirates" on Napster by uploading a version of their album Keep It Together that replaced real vocals with fake cat meows.
XKa8 TIL Serena and Venus Williams were 16 and 18 years old when they challenged any man outside the top 200 best tennis players in the world to beat them, Karsten Braasch the 203 player accepted the challenge and defeated them with 6-1 and 6-2, they later changed it to beating anyone outside of top 350.
0d1wp TIL that they created Gwyneth Paltrow's head for Se7en but never used it. It was however used in the autopsy scene in Contagion.
b9rYZ TIL Disney animated movies won the Academy Award for Best Original Song 5 times from 1989 - 1995. (Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, Pocahontas)