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TIL: The ubiquitous anti-piracy commercials used on DVDs used pirated music.

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WboA TIL India’s government once released about 25,000 flesh-eating turtles to clean up corpses polluting the Ganges river.
oGR7 TIL that Leonardo da Vinci created plans for a “mechanized knight,” - a robot-like creation reliant on a system of pulleys. When these plans were found almost 500 years later and built according to Leonardo’s specifications, the design worked perfectly.
loeg1 TIL of the color Mummy Brown. First made in the 16th and 17th centuries, this rich brown pigment was created by mixing both human and feline mummy crumbles with white pitch and myrrh.
epypb TIL that Apollo 12 3rd stage has been orbiting the earth-sun-moon system for over 50 years
4XQ1R TIL about the Arnold Reflex, which is when physical stimulation of a nerve in the ear elicits a cough. This is why, for some people, cleaning their ear with q-tips often causes them to cough.