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TIL of stingrays, or fake cell towers used by law enforcement that trick cell phones into giving gps and identifying info. When used to track a suspect, it also gathers information of all cellphones nearby.

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8MnL TIL when an unidentified infant’s remains were discovered by a ship in 1912, the crew was so upset that they’d paid for it’s monument, which read “Our Babe”
Ay0w TIL After Tom Waits denied Audi permission to use his song “Innocent while you dream”, they did so anyway and he succesfully sued them, afterwards saying “Now they understand the words to the song better… It wasn’t Innocent When You Scheme, it was Innocent When You Dream.”
oRKBr TIL that sloths can hold their breath up to twice as long as dolphins
BNKb TIL After Christian Slater took the place of River Phoenix in “Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles” he donated his entire paycheck from the movie to all of River’s favorite charities.
XWVX TIL that Dick Smothers of the Smothers Brothers, has a son named Dick Smothers Jr, who is a male porn star. He goes by his legal name.