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TIL that Exxon’s punitive damages for the Exxon Valdex oil spill were reduced from $5 billion to $507.5 million

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LkKQp TIL T-rex babies were fluffy.
rNRo0 TIL that director Christopher Nolan's brother Matthew was alleged to be a contract killer who kidnapped and tortured an accountant to death in Costa Rica. While being held in a secure prison tower in Chicago, Matthew concocted an elaborate escape attempt using a razor, a harness, and a 31-foot rope.
8anRb TIL that in 1983 a Mexican pilot crashed landed in a small town in Ireland and the whole town came together to build a temporary runway for him to take off again and continue his flight.
4AjN TIL it is against the law for supermarkets, department stores, and other big box stores in Rhode Island, Maine, and Massachusetts to be open on Thanksgiving.
0d9e5 TIL that not only autistic people have problems with social etiquette, allistic people (non-autistic) tend to avoid engage in social interaction with them.