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TIL Michael Jackson probably wrote the music for Sonic 3 on Sega (although uncredited)

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L8x0 TIL multiple case reports exist of adolescents injecting themselves with elemental mercury after having seen X-Men Origins: Wolverine and incorrectly believing they can convert their bones to metal by injecting themselves with liquid metal.
4lJ5 TIL 2 groups of Chimpanzees fought a war against each other form 1974-1978. Dr. Jane Goodall was very disturbed by this and said,“For several years I struggled to come to terms with this new knowledge.”
ADv4x TIL Wood frogs in Alaska can hold their pee for up to 8 months, during the region's long winters. They relieve themselves once temperatures increase. The urine actually helps keep them alive while they hibernates, with special microbes in their gut turning the urea (urine's main waste) into nitrogen
4dL5 TIL there is something called “the small penis rule” that authors use to avoid libel lawsuits: if a character is described as having a small penis, no one will want to sue and say the character is based on them.
1aOmX TIL that the first pocket calculator [Curta (Type I) mechanical calculator] was invented by the Jewish inventor Curt Herzstark in Buchenwald concentration camp during WWII. The Nazis planned to make a present of it to Hitler as a gift after the successful end of the war.