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TIL A federal prison inmate sued Taco Bell for stealing his Doritos Taco idea.

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9EwQ TIL 1/3 of homeless people in the United States have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (approx. 250,000 of 744,000).
b9Z7 TIL There is a conspiracy theory that The Shining was a coded admission from Kubrick to faking the Moon landing.
R7Z7j TIL Culhuacan king allowed a small migrant Aztec tribe, the Mexica, to settle on his lands. 24 years later they sought marriage with the Culhuacan princess. Rather than marry her, the Mexica sacrificed her, then invited her father to a banquet where a priest wore her flayed skin as a garment.
OorAR TIL that several European nobles thought that their bodies were made of glass. This is called the Glass Delusion.
yVYbw TIL that the biggest butterfly in the world has a 31cm wingspan. It belongs to the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly, which you can find in the forests of the Oro Province, in the east of Papua New Guinea.