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TIL Colin Farrell was accused of murder in Australia. The thing that got him off was that his friend had a diary entry saying that they done ecstasy together that day - on the opposite side of the city from where the murder took place

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GYKPG TIL about Frisland, a "phantom/imaginary" island off the coast of Greenland which, despite being nonexistent, appeared on virtually all of the maps of the North Atlantic from the 1560s through the 1660s.
D1J9Y TIL about the Pistol Shrimp, a crustacean that kills its preys with bullets made out of bubbles. The clicking of its claws are so loud that the US Navy used its colonies as an “acoustic screen” to hide from the underwater hydrophones in Japan's harbours during WWII.
xKW1 TIL that as part of their family’s settlement with a gas company, a 7-year-old and a 10-year-old are banned from talking about fracking for the rest of their lives.
RRNw TIL There’s an actual chemical seriously called Mutagen X.
Gj51 TIL that lie detectors aren’t reliable, and the creator of the polygraph himself called the machine a “Frankenstein’s Monster” due to law enforcements use of it.