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TIL That Red Granite Pictures the production company behind “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Daddy’s Home” reached a 60 million dollar settlement with the US government over a 4.5 billion Malaysian government corruption case

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9xQ TIL Flatworms all have a dagger-like penis that they use to hunt for food, but when it comes time to mate, the two flatworms will go about fencing one another in order to avoid becoming the mother.
9RBG TIL that the color orange was named after the fruit. Before that, the color was typically referred to as “yellow-red”, leading to many orange things being described as “red”, such as red hair, red deer, and robin redbreast.
N7JP6 TIL that NASCAR oval tracks are run counterclockwise because the Brits run their horse races clockwise and America runs left to spite the king.
e0xOb TIL Lily Allen wrote a song dissing her brother Alfie in 2007, criticizing him for his lazy behavior. Since then he's done well for himself best known for playing Theon Greyjoy in HBO's Game of Thrones.
yVV6a TIL about the Demon Core, a spherical 6.2 kg. mass of plutonium intented to be a third nuclear weapon against Japan. After Japan surrended, it was kept in the US where it caused the death of two Nuclear Physicists.