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5O1D TIL that the concept of “The Human Centipede” arose from a joke the director made with friends about punishing a child molester by stitching his mouth to the anus of a “fat truck driver.”
p8ljA TIL there's a modern university library with see through floors
5VAB8 TIL about Pelorus Jack who was a dolphin that was famous for escorting ships through a stretch of water in Cook Strait, New Zealand. The animal was reported from 1888 until his disappearance after 1912. Pelorus Jack was usually spotted in a notoriously dangerous channel.
NXYE1 TIL: That in 2014, a doctor in Wales was handed a suspended sentence for faking Viagra prescriptions because he said he was too embarrassed to see his GP. Staff became suspicious because the doctor worked in a trauma and orthopaedic unit, where patients would not normally need drugs for impotence.
4kEpN TIL: If nuclear war has started, only 150 nukes would destroy humanity. There are 13,800 NUKES on earth.