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TIL the national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.

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nWe7P TIL in 1762, a Korean king confined his son ("Crown Prince Sado") in a rice chest in the heat of summer and starved him to death. It is said that the crown prince turned lunatic under his father's extremely high expectations, became bipolar, and sadistically murdered people
j6LAE TIL about Lonnie Johnson, an American inventor who is most famously known for inventing the Super Soaker, which he initially developed while working with the U.S. Air Force. He later sued Hasbro for underpaid royalties, and was awarded nearly $73 million dollars.
YLxW TIL that 8th century Muslim scholar al-Jahiz had made observations that described evolution way before Darwin or Lamark, but in an anecdotal way.
b64nj TIL David Cronenberg's early horror film, The Brood, was his answer to the optimistic divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer released the same year. He also intentionally cast the main couple in the film to resemble Cronenberg and his wife. He considered it his "most cathartically satisfying film."
njGB TIL that there are methane ice worms in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico that live off of bacteria that eat the chemicals in the “ice”.