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TIL The Onion has been in existence for 26 years
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TIL "Flaws" was the nickname given to the sharks used in Jaws (due to their constant malfunction). As a result, Spielberg relied on the famous "D/E flat" notes to suggest the presence of Jaws, rather than actually showing him (more often)
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TIL Marion County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation after one of its officers said he suspected someone had taken a bite out of a McChicken sandwich. They concluded that the officer forgot he took a bite of his sandwich.
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TIL that Pirates may have worn eye-patches in order to have one of their eyes already adapted to darkness for when they go below deck.
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TIL that Nikola Tesla predicted the modern cell phone in 1926: ¨we shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but... we shall see and hear one another as though we were face to face... a man will be able to carry one in his pocket¨
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TIL Alexander the Great expressed in his last will and testament the desire to see “transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction from Europe to Asia, in order to bring the largest continent to common unity and to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties.”