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TIL that a frog has been discovered in 2015 that looks like Kermit

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a8ooM TIL that Microsoft's longest-running software product line is actually Microsoft Flight Simulator, predating Windows by three years.
akvN TIL Bill Murray was only paid $9000 to star in Rushmore. He also gave Wes Anderson a check $25,000 to film the final montage after Disney refused to finance it. Anderson never cashed the check.
gMKeL TIL Leigh Mercer, a mathematician and writer, created an equation that, when spoken aloud, was a limerick. "A dozen, a gross, and a score/Plus three times the square root of four/Divided by seven/Plus five times eleven/Is nine squared and not a bit more."
yQNDa TIL In the mid-1970s, a lawyer from Akron, Ohio, wrote the Cleveland Browns football team with a complaint about paper airplanes being tossed around the Stadium. The Browns replied with a letter saying "I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters"
x771 TIL that when it became apparent that Israel was going to win the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest, most of the Arabic countries ended their transmission of the contest. This includes Jordan, who replaced the live broadcast with a picture of daffodils and later announced that Belgium had won.