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TIL that during the Joker Pencil Trick scene in The Dark Knight was as dangerous as it looked. Charles Jarman, who played the Pencil Trick Thug, stated that he had to remove the pencil, in order to make it look realistic, before Joker (played by Heath Ledger) slammed his head on the table.

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4oMJ TIL Google has found GPA’s and test scores to be “worthless as a criteria for hiring”; they have teams where 14% of their employees haven’t gone to college
BrVRD TIL that there’s a “dead spot” in the Black Sea where scientists have found ships as old as 1200 years preserved well enough to see chisel marks from original builder.
VBGKp TIL A notorious grouch who detested the growing influence of the greeks in roman culture and society, Cato the Elder also believed all greek doctors to be part of a grand conspiracy to eradicate all romans through defective medicine and deliberate malpractice
V4B8 TIL The BEANO T-13 hand grenade was an experimental hand grenade developed by the OSS in the later years of WWII. The designers believed that by emulating the size and weight of a baseball, any American young man should be able to properly throw the grenade with both accuracy and distance.
oBkaW TIL about Daniel Lambert (1770 – 1809), a prison guard and animal breeder who was the largest man in recorded history during his lifetime. He once fought a bear in the streets, and became so poor that he was forced to put himself on display.