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TIL: There are depictions of Medieval Knights fighting Snails in ancient manuscripts…and nobody knows why

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9YokG TIL there is a fish called the Minipizza Batfish. It’s flat and round like a miniature pizza.
OoYRa TIL $3 trillion was stolen from developing countries by multinational corporations in 2012. While a total of $0.135 trillion in aid was received by those same countries that year.
XEOJR TIL Norm Macdonald was fired from Saturday Night Live because an NBC executive ordered him to lay off jokes targeting his buddy, O.J. Simpson & instead Macdonald did many more. When Simpson was acquitted, Macdonald opened with: “Well, it’s official: Murder is now legal in the state of California."
OGnn7 TIL of Behringer's Lying Stones; where pieces of limestone were carved into the shapes of fictitious animals including one that bore the name of God in Hebrew. Behringer, a famous professor, had published a book on the fossils. The discovery of the prank ruined the reputations of everyone involved.
7r1b7 TIL that in 1965, 21 yr old Al Kooper bluffed his way into the studio where Bob Dylan was recording Highway 61 Revisited. Although he didn't know how to play the Hammond organ or even turn it on, his improvised intro & off the beat riffs became the signature groove & sound of "Like A Rolling Stone".