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TIL that there is evidence of early humans being killed and eaten by eagles

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yXOJ TIL Heineken developed squared beer bottles to be used as bricks. The plan was to eliminate waste on beaches and provide building materials to the Caribbean market.
xVNEb TIL Michael Jackson went grocery shopping shopping in a closed down supermarket with all the other people being actors just to experience what's it like to be an ordinary person
678l TIL Johnny Knoxville permanently damaged his penis by breaking it doing a backflip on a motorcycle. He has described it as “like a dog’s chew toy” and “like a sock that’s lost its elasticity.”
epOMD TIL That one man, William Whewell, coined the words “scientist”, “physicist”, “linguistics”, “electrode”, “ion”, “anode”, and “cathode” among others
awZBM TIL that in 1921, a dog was put on trial for "catslaughter." He was represented by an actual lawyer, tried in an actual courtroom, in front of an actual judge, with an actual jury, who acquitted him for the crime.