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TIL that Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin both owed the same Tortoise

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rR0xW TIL that the first custom ringtone ever made was of Van Halen's "Jump"
ALyd TIL George Lucas paid a fine and resigned from the DGA after they had told him to stick to conventional opening credits for “Star Wars” (1977)
QJ4D6 TIL of the bullshit asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
69eAJ TIL that the ancient Egyptians believed in over 1,400 different gods and goddesses, each with their own unique responsibilities and powers
w8g6 TIL that in 1927 two innocent men were executed in the US for their political beliefs. The sentencing judge said: “This man, although he may not have actually committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions.”