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TIL The actor that portrayed Scruff McGruff the Crime Dog was arrested and sentenced to 16 years in prison for possesion of Marijuana and Grenade Launchers.

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Ypjwr TIL Galileo was the first to confirm the Moon's rough and uneven surface using a specially-engineered telescope and the first to find sunspots. Both findings, in addition to his observation of Jupiter's moons revolving the planet, helped disprove Aristotle's theory of a geocentric universe.
lDdK TIL a Nestle store in Japan sold Kit Kats coated with edible gold. Limited to 500, they were sold for the US equivalent of $16.
oRdY TIL the first documented occurrence of the high five wasn’t until 1977
7wvZ TIL that an adult attracted to teens is an ephebophile not a pedophile
eVNb TIL ‘McRib’ contains over 70 ingredients including a bleaching agent often used in foamed plastics. McRib’s “restructured meat technology” uses proteins extracted from a mixture of tripe, heart, and scalded stomach to bind pork trimmings into a rib-like food item.