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TIL Sony sold its waterproof Walkman in a bottle of water to prove it was really waterproof

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nVkG TIL Christopher Lee, when acting the scene in which Saruman is stabbed from behind in The Return of the King, informed Peter Jackson that because he would be stabbed in the lungs, he would not be able to scream. He knew this from his time in the SAS during WWII
Ydv TIL: Alien world blacker than coal, the darkest planet known, has been discovered in the galaxy.
R5gba TIL that Spirulina isn't a vegetable, it's a bacteria
OGjJY TIL in 2020, a judge reduced the awarded damages in a class action suit against Risperidal’s maker by a 12 person jury from $8 billion to $6.8 million (-99.915%)
69o5W TIL A garment factory in Bangladesh used by multiple large corporations collapsed, killing 1134 workers. Walmart, Carrefour, Bonmarché, Benetton, Mango, Auchan and Kik refused to pay compensation to their families.