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TIL the longest jury deliberations lasted 4 1/2 months after 6 months of testimony in the McClure vs City of Long Beach trial. Jurors drank before testimony, took unauthorized vacations, and even lied about an illness to see a horse race.

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Ooal1 TIL that every Autumn a fungus epidemic kills off 75% of house flies. It attacks their brain forcing them to land on a surface and climb to the highest point, stand up on its front legs and spread its wings. The fungus then erupts from its abdomen to be spread to other flies.
lorWa TIL about the Fast Inverse Square Root, an ingenious set of code that quickly calculated accurate square roots in Quake 3 using floating points and Newton's method. However, it is not exactly known who on the dev team implemented the code.
OGo0a TIL Sinead O'Connor was a major inspiration for REM's Losing my Religion video. Not only was Michael Stipe so moved by Sinéad's lip syncing in Nothing Compares to U video that he finally acquiesced to lip-synching in REM music videos, but he also states that he stole his dance moves from her.
wjaP TIL Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, Gene Roddenberry’s wife, appeared in almost every Star Trek TV series and movies (other than Enterprise). She played Nurse Chapel, Lwaxana Troi, and the voice of the Enterprise-D and E onboard computer.
6rDX TIL Dam Son, the kid in the yearbook meme, grew up to be a respected theoretical physicist.