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TIL Freddy Kruger was originally going to be played by veteran British actor David Warner.

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lLjB TIL a lobster’s brain is located in its throat, its nervous system in its abdomen, its teeth in its stomach and its kidneys in its head. It also hears using its legs, tastes with its feet, and tends to favor one front limb, meaning they can be right-clawed or left-clawed.
lowYB TIL After crashing, a driver in German was fined for using Tesla touchscreen wiper controls, under the same rules as using a phone while driving. The German court decided touchscreen car controls should be treated as a distracting electronic device
Mep87 TIL that Japanese emoji put more emphasis on the eyes whereas western emoji put more emphasis on the mouth
r6D1 TIL that Gearbox Software dedicated an entire achievement and a NPC in their hit game Borderlands 2 to Michael Mamaril, a huge fan of the game who passed away at the age of 22 due to a terminal illness.
kOV44 TIL of the Mean World syndrome, a cognitive bias where people perceive the world to be more dangerous than it actually is due to heavy exposure to violence-related content on mass media.