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TIL that we all have tons of tiny arachnids living on our faces! They’re called face mites and probably on your eyelashes right now.

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5GbR TIL in 2004, a woman engaged to a video game programmer anonymously vented her frustrations about her fiancé’s brutal 85-hour work week in a single blog post which eventually led to three class action lawsuits and a $14.9M judgement against the company he worked for.
j6yeX TIL that Klaus and Sunny from "A Series of Unfortunate Events" were named after Claus and Sunny von Bülow, a famous attempted murder case where a wealthy lawyer was found guilty of injecting his wife, Sunny, with a deadly insulin cocktail which left her in a vegetative state for the rest of her life
gVeA TIL that actor Sir Anthony Hopkins wrote a letter of praise to Bryan Cranston, telling him that his “performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen – ever.”
WMB4 TIL that 19/20th century rural farmers would connect telephones to barbed wire fencing, creating an autonomous, decentralized network
166e8 TIL it's illegal to receive compensation for fortune telling in Oklahoma