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TIL, that the most published works by one author, was L. Ron Hubbard at 1084.

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0d8jp TIL during the making of "Jurassic Park," the terrifying sounds of the velociraptors were created by recording mating tortoises for their communication barks and using horse and goose sounds for breathing and hissing, respectively.
AD1vn TIL that rigor mortis in the dartos muscle in the scrotum may lead to post mortem ejaculation of semen and may get wrongly interpreted to sexual activity just before death.
5Yg98 TIL the U.S. Supreme Cοurt ruled Jοhn D. Rοckefeller's οil empire to be an illegal mοnοpοly in 1911. It subsequently split into 34 smaller cοmpanies. Hοwever, thοse cοmpanies have slowly been turning into monοpolies once more, leading to BP, ExxοnMοbil and Chevrοn.
ZjoG TIL Hundreds of prisoners were left to die in their cells during hurricane Katrina as officials abandoned Orleans Parish Prison.
78Zxx TIL about the Somaliland campaign, a series of military expeditions in northern Somalia by the British Empire against the Dervish movement from 1900 to 1920. It ended when the British aerially bombed the Dervish capital. 100K to 150K Somali civilians were ultimately killed in the campaign.