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TIL Filmmaker Wes Anderson is the great-grandson of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs

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vAVB TIL that Fried Chicken was invented by the Scottish and dates back to the middle ages.
Dp9p TIL Pimps wear expensive jewelry so that if they get arrested their girls can pawn it for bail.
p8M6A TIL in 1954, Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes in two days. He was presumed dead almost 24 hours later until he was spotted coming out of the jungle carrying bananas and a bottle of gin.
GYX6J TIL of the Roman senator Lucius Licinius Crassus, who held a funeral for his pet eel. When another senator ridiculed him for this, he replied: "did you not bury three wives and not shed a tear?"
W7pKL TIL about Dupuytren’s Disease, which causes nodules and chords to form in the palm of you hand, and prevents you from fully opening/relaxing your fingers after a while (which is called Dupuytren’s Contracture). Newer treatments involve injecting an enzyme and audibly snapping the cord.