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TIL that cone snails have 3 teeth.

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Bepx TIL France tried stop Amazon offer free shipping to its customers by fining them €1,000 per day. Amazon continued to pay the fines instead of ending its policy of offering free shipping. After law was created banning free shipping, Amazon effectively snubbed it by charging one cent for delivery.
k6AB TIL that Pinball was removed from Windows Vista, because the original code was written by an outside company and Microsoft couldn’t find the collision detector in the code!
Mvga TIL that Ryan Phillippe found the scene in Cruel Intentions where he had to fight with Reese Witherspoon (his real-life fiancée) so emotionally punishing that, after it was over, he went outside and threw up.
78WAO TIL - According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 60 percent of former NBA players are broke within five years of retirement. By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress
E1r0W TIL that in a Hawaiian creation myth, our universe was created from the wreckage of a previous universe, with the only survivors being octopuses.