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TIL Justin Berfield, better know as Reese from Malcolm in the Middle, is now the Chief Creative Officer of Virgin Produced, Virgin’s production company

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xo97 TIL there are hundreds of mysterious tiles placed all over the world, the ominous message unknown
4Xxxa TIL about "Chewbacca defense", a legal strategy in which a criminal defense lawyer tries to confuse the jury rather than refute the case of the prosecutor.
logM5 TIL that groundhogs and woodchucks are the same animal.
oRdLR TIL Prisoners in Birkenau concentration camp during Nazi Germany had better chances of survival (60%) if they worked in the latrines. Nazi officials avoided those areas, reducing the risk of abuse. Workers could also recover food other prisoners' vomit, gain privileged info, and receive bribes.
Eaw0 TIL that the K2, the world’s second tallest mountain, has no local name. It is so remote and inaccessible that very few local people knew of its existence, and thus why it retains its original surveying moniker given to it by British surveyors.