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TIL that a 99-million-year old fossilized Daddy Longlegs was found with an erection.

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kJwGm TIL Kim Jong-il didn't understand that movies were fictional. He liked James Bond, Rambo, and Hong Kong action movies, but would watch them "as if they were records of reality."
pRrb TIL a US Navy battleship was shut down for 3 hours because its computer divided by zero, causing the whole network to crash.
GAVrg TIL that Scots law has a third verdict, “Not Proven,” where there is belief that the defendant is guilty, but the Crown has not sufficiently proven guilt. Or, as in the popular saying “Not guilty, but don’t do it again.”
w99E TIL the original Spy Kids movie has a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
0wnyL TIL in 2008, McDonald's Japan paid 1,000 people to wait in line for the release of the Quarter Pounder in Osaka. People were paid $10 an hour to do this. 15,000 people gathered at the restaurant due to the fake crowd which caused people to accuse the company of trickery.