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TIL "Super Dave Osborne" is the real-life brother of comedian Albert Brooks

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oBAV8 TIL of Battle of Cape Ecnomus, in which 1/5th of the Roman male population participated in. A total of 300 thousand men participated in a pitched battle that lasted mere hours.
85Ra TIL in 1985, John Fogerty of CCR was sued for sounding like himself in his solo music. The cost: $1.1 million in legal fees. He pushed it to the Supreme Court to fight the double standard of defendants not being awarded the fees & won, setting a precedent that defends artists from corporate sabotage
epPXE TIL attendance at Detroit Tigers’ home games in 1976—excluding the home opener—was 33,649 in the 18 games started by Mark Fidrych and just 15,147 in games started by other pitchers, amounting to a 122.2 percent increase in attendance to watch the charismatic right-hander.
Zp7lR TIL that the female moorland hawker dragonfly sometimes plays dead to avoid mating. Unlike some females of some other species of dragonfly, they aren’t guarded by male mates. A single sexual encounter is enough to fertilize all their eggs, and copulating again could damage their reproductive tracts.
DjED TIL that dozens of North Korean “ghost ships”, many containing corpses, have washed up on the Japanese coast in recent years.