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TIL Rolex designs the Greenroom at the Oscars

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Z8x9R TIL of a Tiger shark that was donated to an Aquarium in 1935. Days later the shark regurgitated the arm of a missing man who was identified by his distinctive tattoos. (Yes, Australia)
R5W6 TIL that there is a Velcro alternative that is 8x stronger than Velcro
4wQ5 TIL that Guinness World Records had to drop records for consuming liquor, beer, wine as well as “other unusual records for consuming such unlikely things as bicycles and trees”.
nbGP Today I learned that the spikes at the end of Stegosaurus’s tail are called “thagomizers” because of a Far Side comic, published in 1982, that featured a cave man pointing to a diagram of a Stegosaurus tail with the caption “Now this end is called the Thagomizer–after the late Thag Simmons.”
BrpOb TIL that scientists were able to predict a person's political orientation with 95 percent accuracy based solely on how their brain reacts to viewing disgusting (but non-political) images.