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TIL of puppeteer Ronald Brown, from Christian children's television programme, Joy Junction. He would later be arrested for planning to kidnap and eat a child.

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5YrOk TIL An elderly man in China tried to buy a train ticket using currency not in circulation since 1949. He wanted to pay for a train ticket costing 12.5 yuan with a 500 yuan banknote and was informed his 1943 note is no longer legal tender. They are now worth over $100
oB5D8 TIL that the widow of the filmmaker who produced the 1974 film "Gone in 60 Seconds" owns the copyright to any vehicle called "Eleanor." She viciously defends the copyright to this day, even suing Carroll Shelby, and a YouTuber, seizing his project car and requiring him to delete his videos.
E8xd TIL: We might have had cassettes , answering machines and VHS neatly 60 years earlier if not for paranoia by Bell Labs /AT&T executives.
nWKv9 TIL all living individuals of the Mercury Island tusked weta (a large, flightless insect known for its large tusks) are descended from a male and two females captured in 1998 and bred in captivity.
8aDVZ TIL bees make honey by continuously regurgitating nectar into each other’s mouths in order to break down the sugars by partially going through the digestive process each time.