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TIL in Sydney there is an annual duck fashion show

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KOGga TIL In 1978, a man was sentenced to life in prison for forging an $88 check because he refused to accept a plea deal and had previously been convicted of two felonies. The Supreme Court upheld the decision.
Br6W TIL that O.J. Simpson was considered for The Terminator but James Cameron “did not feel that Simpson would be believable as a killer.”
ykMX TIL, Tony Iommi, guitarist for Black Sabbath, lost the ends of two of his fretting fingers at the age of 17. He fashioned his own prosthetics and went on to be one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
JYae4 TIL that one consequence of lower oil prices is that fewer plastics get recycled. Since plastics are petroleum based products, if oil prices fall low enough, it's cheaper for companies that might use recycled materials to just manufacture new plastics, and recyclables end up in landfills.
XEABk TIL that platypus don't have teats, instead they concentrate milk to their belly and feed their young by sweating it out