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TIL in New Zealand, Parliamentary Members' Bills Are Drawn From a 30 Year Old Biscuit Tin

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P17LL TIL that years before the upcoming Gladiator 2, Russell Crowe commissioned a script for a sequel in which Maximus goes to the afterlife and gets resurrected, appearing in World War 2 and the Vietnam War, and ending with him in a suit and tie at the modern-day Pentagon.
ekXJ TIL of the cobra effect, in which unintended consequences make the problem worse. The anecdote goes that the British had a bounty on cobras in India which led to Indians breeding cobras.
0PXy TIL In WWII, a Polish soldier volunteered to be thrown in Auschwitz and escape to prove to the Allies that the Holocaust was real.
DwoV TIL: The human brain has a memory capacity of approximately 2.5 petabytes (or 2.5 million gigabytes)
awLJA TIL of the ‘Megatherium’ or Giant ground sloth, one of the largest land mammals known to have existed, weighing up to 4 tons, and measuring up to 6 m (20 ft) in length from head to tail, as big as modern elephants.