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TIL A Lobsters Nervous System is So Similar to a Human's that Human AntiDepressants work on Lobsters

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Y705v TIL that Shaq turned down the role of John Coffey in The Green Mile. And it worked perfectly for everyone, including us
Q88X TIL: Lobsters pee out of their face to display their dominance.
Q74p TIL 40 percent of all Wikipedia vandalism is detected by a single bot. It has only 0.1% false positives.
D1ZpJ TIL socialist Victor Berger was indicted/convicted under the Espionage Act. Despite this he was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate and returned to Congress in 1918. The House disqualified him; Berger ran in a special election and won again (eventually the Supreme Court overturned his conviction)
jN7WM TIL that on the episode of Breaking Bad where Walt throws a whole pizza onto the roof of his house in anger, the pizza was real and Bryan Cranston nailed it in one take.