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TIL Hooters offered employees the chance to win a Toyota. When the winning waitress was given a “toy Yoda” action figure as a prank she sued and won enough to “pick out whatever type of Toyota she wants.”

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BjJK TIL of Cymothoa exigua, a parasite that consumes the tongue of a fish, attaches itself to the blood supply, and becomes a newly functioning tongue, gorging itself until the host slowly dies of starvation. It’s one of few known parasites that consume and replace a host’s organs.
GxOj TIL the only way the BBC could record its live broadcasts in the 1950s was to point a film camera at a television. Because of this, the only known recording of the landmark sci-fi serial “The Quatermass Experiment” features an insect walking across the screen.
KON7Q TIL Georges Charpak was awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention and development of particle detectors. In 1944 he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, where he remained until the camp was liberated in 1945
yVvew TIL that, during the 1950s, Las Vegas earned the nickname "Atomic City" for becoming a hotspot where tourists would gather to watch above-ground nuclear weapons tests taking place at Nevada Test Site
JQp1 TIL in 1966, two American teenagers found two child mummies in a cave in Mexico, smuggled them back to California, and ditched them in a friend’s garage until the friend’s mother discovered the mummies 14 years later.