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TIL: The Kim Jong-il statue in Team America is actually just a real person in makeup standing very still.

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78RYr TIL Members of the U.S. Army Special Ops and the FBI entered a room at the Revere Hotel in Boston. Finding a man sleeping, they handcuffed him, put him in the shower and interrogated him for 45 minutes before realizing the unassuming Delta pilot was the wrong guy.
dWlK TIL Anaxarchus, disciple of Pythagoras, bit off his own tongue and spat it in the face of Nicocreon, tyrant of Cyprus while under torture to reveal the secrets of his order. [Pliny]
woJ56 TIL that hundred of television shows and movies are canon to a show called St. Elsewhere. It started as a criticism of rigor around comics lore and has since evolved into a fan project.
R5NAQ TIL that the man commonly credited with inventing the sandwich was in charge of the Royal Navy during the American Revolution. His incompetent leadership was a factor in the American victory. It was said about him that "Seldom has any man held so many offices and accomplished so little."
l7nYG [TIL] Tigers, Lions, and other big cats don't have slitted pupils like house cats, but round pupils like us.