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TIL a couple dressed up as "Mary and her little lamb" for a Halloween party, and the man caught fire after deciding to light a cigarette. They sued Johnson & Johnson, which had manufactured the cotton batting he had worn. A jury awarded the couple $625,000, but the decision was overturned on appeal.

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XKQQ TIL some ducks have been observed floating through tidal rapids or fast-moving sections of rivers, and when they’ve reached the end, hurrying back to the beginning to ride over and over.
EBGX TIL: in 2009, a South African IT company had a carrier pigeon race against the country’s largest internet service provider, Telkom, over 80 km. In a two hour period, a 4GB flash drive was carried by Winston the pigeon and read, while only 4.2% of the data had been transferred by Telkom.
vP1g4 TIL The Tarzan Character Was Temporarily Removed From Disney Parks Because People Kept Pinching His Butt Cheeks
jBRX TIL that Disney uses Touchstone Pictures to release films with more darker tones that wouldn’t be suitable for the Disney brand name.
xdmg TIL the Age of Empires game for the Nintendo DS could be bricked/destroyed completely if the name of the save file was less than 4 characters long. The developers later had to print a slip into future cartridges warning players since the glitch could not be repaired, only worked around.