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TIL Squidward Tentacles isn’t a squid, but a six-legged octopus.

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lo9MA TIL about the inhalant drug ‘Lança Perfume’, or ‘Loló’, sold largely in Brazil. Chloroform and/or Ether are main ingredients used in the drug, taken via small bottles or flasks. Popular with upper class students in the mid-late 20th Century, rock singer Rita Lee had a hit 1980 song named after it.
r8b0 TIL LOTR dwarves are supposed to speak with Arabic or Hebrew accent, resulting in dwarven place names like Khazad-dûm and Moria, not Scottish as per popular culture today.
QJG46 TIL the Luchador antagonist in Jack Black's movie Nacho Libre, Ramses, was a real luchador known as Silver King, and that he died from a heart attack in the middle of a wrestling match earlier this year.
jaVp TIL that the dog breed Komondors use Dreadlocks to protect against Wolf bites
b9wxQ TIL Norway gets 99% of its electric power from hydropower