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TIL a number of hotels have begun 'rent a fish' programs whereby--for a modest fee--guests can borrow a goldfish to keep as a companion for the night.

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YpWB TIL that 8 out of 9 developers of the hugely influential N64 game GoldenEye 007 had never worked on video games before.
b6e7Q TIL in the Jurassic Park book a baby is eaten alive by dinosaurs
Ller TIL that during King’s March on Washington, the DOJ had appointed a person to sit next to the sound system, and in the event of a riot, to pull the sound and play a record of Mahalia Jackson’s “He’s got the Whole World in his Hands” to placate the crowd.
Ma58 TIL the man who made a fortune selling Ouija boards built a factory according to what the board told him, then fell off its roof and died
e5ob TIL André the Giant was once in a Montreal bar when four drunken men started to taunt him. André finally got fed up and chased the four men out into the parking lot. When the four men got into their car, André simply grabbed the car, turned it over onto its roof with the four men inside, and left.