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TIL that rhinoceros beetles are popular pets in many parts of Asia and have been used in gambling fights.

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69LQl TIL a pair of fossilized hadrosaur vertebrae exists with a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth embedded inside, surrounded by healed bone growth. This indicates the animal was attacked by a T. rex and survived.
d8pQE TIL Jimmy Carter is the only US President to have served a full term and not appoint a Supreme Court Justice.
Pk0G TIL the release of Halo 2 for the PC was delayed because one of the developers put a picture of his butt in the game.
KaKw TIL after Lenny Bruce died cops wanted his body and death scene to look more like a junkie for news photographers. They posed him, pulled his pants down, and put a box of syringes by his body.
woOeM TIL of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals: an organization aimed at clothing “indecent” naked animals that lasted from 1959-1962 and had over 50,000 members. SINA ended when the founder was exposed as Alan Abel, notorious prankster, who wanted to parody the conservative moralist of the time