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TIL A man once sued a dry cleaner’s for $67M over a late return of a pair of pants. He reduced it to $45 million in court. The case was thrown out multiple times, the man lost his job as he was a judge himself, and the dry cleaners was forced to close their shop due to court costs.

jNDbX TIL there is only one mammal species that uses stridulation as a means of communication with other members of its group. The lowland streaked tenrec, native to Madagascar, uses its spines to create high-pitched sounds by rubbing them against each other just as crickets use their scrapers to chirp.
BrvWK TIL in 1920, the last living relative of Chief Massasoit (who helped the Pilgrims) heard Plymouth MA was erecting a statue of her ancestor out of gratitude. She pulled out a tiny basket she wove — only 3/16" tall — and said "That basket would hold all of Massachusetts' gratitude for Massasoit."
XErR6 TIL the US Bureau of Land Management only allows 20 people per day to visit The Wave rock formation in Arizona and you have to apply 4 months in advance for a permit.
e0Xa6 TIL at the height of the Mongol Empire, Kublai Khan commissioned the creation of a unified script to be used by all languages within the empire. Called 'Phags-pa script, it was the official script for about 100 years, before falling out of use towards the end of the Yuan Dynasty in the 1350s.
gE79 TIL - The pilot episode of “Archer” was re-animated with archer and all of his lines replaced by a velociraptor.