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TIL mini-chameleons the size of a fingernail were discovered on Madagascar in 2012

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69ddm TIL Nike's famous slogan, "Just Do It," has a dark past. It was inspired by murderer Gary Gilmore. When he was sentenced to death in October he was asked if he had any last words. Facing down a five-man firing squad, Gilmore said: "Let's do it."
0w0lv TIL there there is a mantis spieces, Liturgusa Krattorum, that was named after the hosts of an American children's show on PBS, The Kratt brothers.
XEbyR TIL that in 2004, John Hutcherson drove home drunk with a friend hanging out the window. He sideswiped a telephone-pole support wire, decapitating his friend. He continued home, parked in the driveway and went to bed. A neighbor found the headless body the next morning.
78nkx TIL Red Wave was the first Soviet rock album released in the West. The album was released in 1986 and was made up of songs from underground rock groups and had to be smuggled out of the country to the record producer.
nWJlG TIL - The interrobang (often represented by any of ?!, !?, ?!?,?!!, !?? or !?!), is an unconventional punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also known as the interrogative point)