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TIL science fiction writer Michael Crichton, author of 'Jurassic Park', was over 2m tall

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XL1R TIL in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
M7mAb TIL Fidel Castro has long tried to breed a “super cow” that would give much more milk than ordinary cows. And one day the Cuban scientists succeeded. It was immediately dubbed a miracle of socialism, and after death, Ubre Blanca was even honored with a monument
XEpeQ TIL the city of Eskilstuna in Sweden recycles half of all its waste, with no domestic waste going to landfill.
YOMd TIL that an Australian study looking at 91 patients who claimed to have had their drink spiked found that zero patients had actually been exposed to sedative drugs in their drink.
mxVeo TIL in 1976, a woman sued Disney for $150,000 because she claimed that one of the Three Little Pigs grabbed and fondled her. Allegedly she gained 50 pounds due to the incident, but dropped charges after Disney's lawyers presented her with a photo of the costume, which had only inoperable stub arms.