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TIL In Lilo and Sitch (2002), Stitch is called 'Experiment 626' because he is his creator's 626th experiment. In an episode of the Lilo and Stitch TV series, they meet 'Experiment 420', who is green and has the power to make food taste better.

WbRB TIL in 2011 a man killed his wife inside of a Walmart and rather than close the store they just roped off the gory crime scene while police investigated.
DZke TIL that several years before the publishing of the renowned 1611 bible which was named after him, King James published a demonology describing the types of ghosts, spirits, vampires, fairies, witches, and even werewolves that haunt the land. It inspired Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
YpXBB TIL that vivisection, dissection of live individuals, usually without anesthesia and often ending in death, were common in the Japanese Unit 731. After the war, involved researchers were secretly given immunity by the US in exchange for the data they gathered through human experimentation.
8eGma TIL about the official script, a writing system that is specifically designated to be official in the constitutions or other applicable laws of countries, states, and other jurisdictions. Akin to an official language, an official script is much rarer
6EGP7 TIL that Steve Jobs in 2000 offered Linus Torvalds to come work for Mac OS to make “Unix for the biggest user base”. Not only this, Jobs even tried to persuade Linus to drop working on Linux.