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TIL that Danny Devito was an executive producer for Pulp Fiction

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awg9N TIL That Elvis Presleys manager sold "I Hate Elvis" badges as a way to make money from people who weren't buying Elvis merchandise
jWxM TIL that Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the respected commander of German forces in East Africa during WW1 was offered a job by Hitler in 1935. He told Hitler to “go fuck himself” though other reports say he didn’t “put it that politely.”
Z8Goa TIL about Octomom, a deep sea octopus that tended her brood of eggs for nearly 4.5 years, likely withut ever eating, setting a record for the longest known gestation.
neyaW TIL a study on cutting in lines found that one person cutting in line has a 54% chance that others in the line will object, and that this jumps to 91.3% when it’s 2 people cutting in line.
WkYJL TIL That ice is predicted to change into a metal at pressures above 4.8 TPa (or ~48 million times the Earth’s atmospheric surface pressure). At even more extreme pressures, it could melt into a quantum liquid.