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TIL that authors sometimes use the "Small Penis Rule" as a strategy to avoid defamation lawsuits. They give their characters small penises as a way of preventing others from claiming that the character is based on their likeness.

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PY8Kg TIL that Dutch inventor Philip Nitschke also known as “Dr. Death” has created the worlds first suicide pod known as the “Sarco”. A button is pressed and the capsule is filled with nitrogen. The person will feel a bit dizzy but will then rapidly lose consciousness and die.
gMbn7 TIL that last year astronauts found a rock from Earth on the Moon which is believed to be 4 billion years old.
1ao14 TIL Stephen Colbert was invited to be the featured entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner. Apparently Republicans didn't realize the character from his show was satire. Featuring some nervous laughs from George W.
x6EPg TIL: There is a real life "Death Note", where Japanese women wish how and why they want their spouse’s to die.
bkj4 TIL In 1963, four Princeton students forced a local train to stop by parking a car on the tracks. With a gun loaded with blanks, they got on the train, picked four girls as their dates, and rode away with them on horseback.