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TIL: Sea urchins like to pick things up off the ground to protect themselves from UV radiation and it makes it look like they are wearing hats.

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Brmer TIL of Toshiba’s 300M yen robbery. In which a man dressed as a police officer intercepted a money delivery under a guise of needing to ‘inspect’ the car for explosives. After lighting a road flare under the car, the thief drove the car and money to ‘safety’, never to be seen again.
R7VVj TIL: In Back to the Future, the theatre in the background behind the clock tower shows "Orgy American Style" being shown. This is an actual porno from 1973. The male star from that porno played Red the Bum in the film, calling Marty a crazy drunk driver when returns to the present.
rR5R0 TIL if you successfully fake insanity in your criminal trial, then somehow convince your doctors you are sane, they will not release you from state hospital, they will consider you a psychopath, because only a psychopath would fake insanity to avoid punishment.
N9yJ TIL that Jackie Chan voiced the character of Shang in the Chinese release of the Walt Disney animated feature, Mulan. He also performed the song “I’ll Make a Man Out of You”, for the film’s soundtrack.
xemk TIL mirrors are placed near elevators as a psychological trick to make wait seem more tolerable. People like to look at themselves.