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TIL Record Companies sued Limewire creators for 72 Trillion Dollars in damages. That was more than global GDP in 2011.

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1gNW TIL that when William Faulkner gave his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature, the audience did not understand him due to his deep Southern accent; when the speech was printed in the papers the next day, it was hailed as one of the greatest Nobel Prize acceptance speeches ever
d8pNK TIL that ethinlyestradiol (EE2) can cause impaired sexual differentiation in male embryos. Said embryos are intersex, genetically male but physically female.
kEMg TIL that during the 1800s, some artists created beautiful and intricate patterns using algae under a microscope. They are called diatom arrangements.
E1P6d TIL in 2003, after Roy Hunt was brutally mauled by one of his tigers during their show in Vegas, the doctors removed a part of his skull to avoid his death from brain swelling, and placed it in a pocket inside of his abdomen until it was ready to be reattached.
JYVyQ TIL In 1880, Queen Sunanda Kumariratana, her daughter and her unborn child drowned as the royal guard watched, because in Siam touching a member of the royal family was punishable by death. The guard was later put to death for being too strict. Even if he'd saved her, he would've been killed anyways