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TIL Apple prohibits “bad guys” from using iPhones in movies
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TIL: Ampulex wasps paralyze cockroaches before clipping their antennae and drinking their blood directly from their heads. Afterward, they drag the roach to a burrow where wasp larva feed on the subdued living cockroach.
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TIL that the popular Nazi symbol is the Hooked Cross, a christian symbol. And not the Swastika, the eastern symbol. One of the places from Hitler's childhood includes a Benedictine Monastery in Austria which had used the Crooked Cross symbol from at least 1869
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TIL large sheets of uncut legal U.S. currency can be purchased from the U.S. Mint in every denomination up to $100 bills.
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TIL that "salting the earth" was a way to totally screw a vanquished enemy by poisoning their land so nothing would grow there. Obvious question: how did they get that much salt?
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TIL Norm MacDonald's 1998 cult-classic film, Dirty Work, was based on a short-story "Vengeance Is Mine, Inc." by Roald Dahl.