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TIL Eric D. Wilkinson, the producer of “The Man from Earth”, thanked the users of BitTorrent for distributing the movie because this way it got way more popular than expected

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pY6gO TIL that in the 1928 Olympics, a rower named Bobby Pearce stopped in the middle of the quarter final race in order to let a family of ducks pass his lane, allowing one of his opponents to pull ahead. He still managed to get first place out of 8 people and went on to win gold in the finals.
pPeZ TIL apparently you can use blood on a urine pregnancy test and get accurate results
00g5 TIL that scientists have created kittens that glow in the dark to help fight AIDS
MeZG8 TIL that Sweden had a chance at Norways oil resources for 40% of Volvo back in the late 70s, but Volvo shareholders believed it was being sold too cheap and declined. Norway oil fund is now over 1 trillion $ and Volvo was sold in 2010 to a Chinese company for 1.8 billion.
epkn TIL a Haitian man was declared dead by 2 physicians, burried in a public cemetary, then 18 years later found roaming a village in a Zombie-like state.