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TIL that the constitution of Ancient Sparta (the "Great Rhetra") was simultaneously a state secret kept in text by the oracle of Delphi, as well as verbal and illegal for anyone to write down.

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v1VPL TIL A man has named Uzi Nissan has held the rights to Nissan.com for over 20 years despite Nissan Motors attempts to acquire the domain
X0Jyj TIL Jon Heder was paid $1,000 to play Napoleon Dynamite. The movie grossed over $40 million in the United States.
y0v8 TIL that in 1963 Frank Sinatra’s son was kidnapped and the kidnappers demanded to be called on payphone, during one call Frank ran out of coins and thought it cost him his son. Thankfully he got his son back but he was never without a roll dimes again for the rest of his life.
l7lZK TIL Eurypterids, an order of arthropods completely wiped out by the world's biggest mass extinction, were scorpion-like giants that could reach almost ten feet in length.
1YnV TIL the bad grammar and spelling errors found in scam emails & phishing attempts from Nigerian princes (etc) is done on purpose; spell checkers are intentionally not used: Research from Microsoft suggests that email scammers maximise profits by entrapping only the most gullible who overlook spelling