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TIL animals can get drunk from eating fruit that has dropped from trees that has fermented

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VMwM4 TIL Stan Lee had a contract awarding him 10% of the net profits of anything based on his characters. The first Spider-Man made more than $800 million in revenue, but the producers claimed it did not make any profit and Lee received nothing.
6E6gY TIL that when Socrates was found guilty of impiety and corruption of the youth, his punishment was put to a vote. He had the choice to suggest an alternative to death, but instead nominated that Athens provide him free meals for the rest of his life.
R7rYQ TIL that 'Baba Yetu', the theme song for Civilization IV, became the first piece of video game music to be nominated for, and win, a Grammy Award.
epZZJ TIL that the torpedoed rms lusitania sank in broad daylight within sight of the coast in just 18 minutes, killing 1197 people.
epNB4 TIL the Emperor Tiberius once tortured a man by ordering his skin scoured with a big fish intended as a gift, then with a crab also intended as a gift after the man accidentally mentioned it whilst being tortured