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TIL in 2015 San Jose police stopped a man from committing suicide by sending him a pizza and phone for negotiating using a bomb disposal robot

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m1VYR TIL that Arthur used to actually look like an aardvark
pAv4 TIL when Skylab fell back to Earth it rained debris on a small town in Australia. The town, Esperance, fined NASA $400 for littering
W704B TIL the origin of the dance routine from Whigfield’s “Saturday Night” are unknown. Once she performed the song and to her bemusement people started doing it. It was not in her music video and she never knew about it.
gr5L8 TIL: Economic conditions in the United Kingdom got so bad in 1973, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin announced he had started a "Save Britain Fund" and declared Ugandans were ready to send food aid to Britain.
wLjJo TIL in 2009 in a ‘David vs Goliath’ lawsuit, a small time inventor won a $23 million lawsuit against Ford auto company for patent infringement.