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TIL that while LED lightbulbs may not “burn out” like an incandescent, they experience Lumen Depreciation, where the bulbs progressively get dimmer and dimmer over time.

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Z86lG TIL there is a blood sport known as Spider Fighting, where two spiders are placed on opposite ends of a stick and pushed towards the middle to fight one another. In 2002, inmates in a Florida prison got into a fight resulting in life threatening injuries over the theft of a pet fighting spider.
Oo1vX TIL Spade Cooley, country music star, was sentenced to life in prison for beating his wife to death in front of their daughter. He later received a 72-hour furlough from the prison hospital unit to play a benefit concert. After receiving a standing ovation he suffered a fatal heart attack backstage.
x0Xo TIL There is an Amusement Park That Lets You Drive Construction Equipment in a Giant Sandbox
wL6rM TIL $10,000 of Lethal Weapon 2’s budget came from a condom company. Ramses Condoms paid the money in order to advertise their product in the film.
X0jxE TIL That when Alois Alzheimer first attempted to report his new findings re the disease at a lecture in 1906, he was largely ignored by his audience because they were far more interested in the following lecture which was all about 'compulsive masturbation'.