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TIL Steven Spielberg developed both Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List simultaneously in 1993. He worked on Jurassic Park at night and Schindler’s List during the day.

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E1e1W TIL about Joseph Pujol (aka Le Petomane) who was a Fartiste. After swimming in the sea, he discovered an icy feeling in his stomach, and upon coming ashore, found water poring from his rectum. He discovered he had a special talent in contracting the muscles in his abdomen and could fart at will.
xDd1 TIL That one of the World’s largest retailers gives out free fruit to children in all UK stores to eat whilst their parents do the shopping, after a member of checkout staff suggested it in her store.
ypWM TIL while at the toilet, president Carter hit a secret “panic button” thinking it was a flush toilet button and Secret Service responded by bursting into the room while the president was still zipping up his trousers.
rRmyd As if these tentacled wonders weren’t already alien enough, the octopus' three hearts and blue copper-rich blood seals the deal.
4XpKg TIL that Pinball was removed from Windows because it had a rounding error in the 64 bit version of XP. The code was written by an outside company and it had no comments whatsoever, so they decided to scrap it instead of spending time trying to figure out how the code worked.