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TIL The Bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in a US Court

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1aVNP TIL Sylvester Stallone wrote the script for ‘Rocky’ by hand in 3.5 days. It was shot in 28 days, which Stallone compared to “the gestation time of a waterbug.”
7xVL TIL that it costs NASA more than $40,000 to ship the equivalent of a 2-liter bottle of water to the International Space Station which is why the systems onboard the ISS recycle 75% of water needed from the astronauts urine and sweat etc.
KerR TIL Walmart was involved in a $24 million dollar bribery scandal to open stores more quickly in Mexico than the law allows.
AgWl TIL a whale’s throat can only fit roughly the dimensions of a beach ball, whereas its mouth can store up to 90 metric tons of food and water.
oBx4r TIL McDonald's did away with their spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.