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TIL Danny Devito helped produce Pulp Fiction and Gattacca

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PYrZO TIL in the 1920s Helene Adelaide Shelby patented a device to help obtain criminal confessions. The suspect was confronted by a human skeleton with glowing red eyes and the interrogator would talk through the skeleton via megaphone. A camera in the skull would record the confessions.
jNlMR TIL Mark Twain made a substantial amount of money throughout his career but lost most of it. He lost the equivalent of $9,000,000 on a typesetting machine investment, his publishing company failed after selling only 200 copies of one of his books, & he was forced to sell his house in Connecticut.
WkVrX TIL Mark Henry has the world record for combined lifts of snatch, clean&jerk, squat, bench press and deadlift totaling 3324.5 lbs all in drug tested competitions. Making him arguably the strong man to have ever lived.
6Vbl TIL the algorithm the ants use to discover how much food there is available is essentially the same as that Internet protocols use to discover how much bandwidth is available for transferring a file.
wVlM TIL that one in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime.