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TIL Brad Pitt consented to the removal of pieces of his front teeth which were restored when filming of “Fight Club” ended

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7wD7 TIL that the Denver police uses a Smelloscope to find pot smokers that don’t comply with the Denver “odour ordinance”
6ZZW TIL as eclipses can be mathematically calculated, the eclipse of May 28, 585 BC, which stopped a battle in Greece, was said by Isaac Asimov to be the earliest human event known to the exact date and time.
OGk16 TIL that the new controls for the periscope in the class of most advanced nuclear attack submarine ever, the Navy used what it calls COTS (Civilian Off The Shelf) technology… in this case, an Xbox 360 controller.
JBj TIL There are just three countries in the entire world that still don’t use the metric system. They are Liberia, Myanmar and USA
0dylN TIL A city treasurer stole over $50 million over the course over over 20 years from a small rural town in Illinois, crippling the infrastructure due to budget shortages.