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TIL that it is not an urban legend that snakes could hide in toilets and attack the genitals of humans. It has happened multiple times in real life.

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v1Wx TIL that a 15-year-old Canadian executed the first major DDoS crippling popular websites likes Yahoo!, CNN, eBay, Dell and Amazon to show the world how easily a kid can knockout websites, was sentenced to 8 mos juvenile detenction and was FORCED to donate $250 to charity.
Od61 TIL that in 1971 there was a failed attempt to adapt Dune to film. It would have included Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, and Mick Jagger acting with music by Pink Floyd. Its failure caused the SFX head to go into a psychiatric hospital where he later wrote the script for “Alien”.
jnbN TIL that water cannot be burned because, technically, it has already been burned.
XGxQ TIL Russians smile less compared to many other people in the world, due in large part to a popular Russian proverb: “A smile without reason is a sign of idiocy.” (See #9)
kJxgm TIL Warner Bros. still makes new films for the beloved Scooby-Doo direct-to-video animated series, releasing at least one every year since 1998's Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island