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TIL that the scene from Futurama’s “Jurrasic Bark” of Seymour waiting for Fry is an homage to a real dog named Hachiko.

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7r45M TIL that staying awake for more than 24 hours brings deficiencies in performance equivalent to having a blood alcohol level of more than 0.10. Most western developed countries consider 0.05 BAC as the threshold for intoxication.
NXDb TIL that a man mistakenly identified as a rapist served nearly 11 years in prison before the truth came out, and now spends his time travelling with the victim to promote awareness of false eyewitness testimony
ADlw4 TIL that during a prohibition new years eve party --Just after midnight on January 1, 1923, federal agents burst into the Chase Hotel’s posh Palm Room for a whiskey raid. Furious party-goers began pummeling the officers --All the while the orchestra kept playing in an effort to drown out the noise.
yQxRV TIL bats were considered birds until the 1700s. Also whales and manatees were thought to be fish.
mW8E TIL Barkhad Abdi had never acted before “Captain Phillips”, was actually born in Somalia, improvised the line “look at me, I am the captain now”, and only made $65k for his Oscar nominated performance.