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TIL that researchers at Yale have demonstrated that human babies might naturally have some sense of morality (as opposed to all moral standards existing only thanks to environmental factors).

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b9VQ7 TIL an imprisoned pimp sued Nike for $100 million in 2014, claiming that Nike should have warned him his Air Jordans were a dangerous weapon in disguise before he stomped on a man's face. The judge dismissed the case, but Nike still had to pay $1,456 in legal fees for their 90-second defense.
WkVm9 TIL during the entire filming of Mary Poppins, NOBODY, not even Julie Andrews, let Dick Van Dyke know he had the “most atrocious cockney accent in the history of cinema.”
LkrQm TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes novels, was a first-class cricketer. He played 10 games for the MCC between 1900 and 1907, achieving a high score of 43 and taking one wicket. Also, the address 221B Baker street, is just down the road from Cricket's heaven, The Lord's.
J1Nnm TIL that the phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" is never once said in any of the 60 Sherlock Holmes stories.
KpZ6 TIL- that an octopuses most rigid body parts are its eyes and if it can fit its eye through a hole it can fit its entire body through it