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TIL Monopoly was created “to demonstrate the evils of land ownership.”

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AEan TIL a man who was napping under a tree and had his skull crushed by a 16 pound pinecone sued various governmental agencies for $5 million due to the lack of warning signs.
bOvZ TIL there is a couple in the US who have a 20 year-old child who has never aged physically or mentally past the toddler stage
1a4Q7 TIL of the dwarf lantern shark, which reaches a maximum known length of less than 8 inches and is capable of producing light through photophores
XEZ7R TIL 1 week after getting out of rehab for heroin and cocaine addiction, Samuel L. Jackson began work on his breakout-role as a crack addict in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever.
jNyXR TIL during WWII a Japanese submarine attacked coastal targets near Ellwood and Santa Barbara, California. The Steven Spielberg film, 1941, is partly based on this incident.