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TIL, if you pay the full cash bail to the court, that money is required to be returned to you after all court appearances have been fulfilled and you were found not guilty. If you paid a bail bondsman, that money is not returned because it is deemed their fee for service.

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TIL The longest anyone's been in a coma is 37 years and 111 days. A six year old girl was in hospital for a routine appendectomy, she went under general anaesthetic and never woke up. She was in a coma from August 6th 1941 to 1978.

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TIL that the word Boycott is named after an Irish landlord named Charles Boycott. After Boycott attempted to evict 11 tenants, the local community decided to shun him. Workers would not work for him, traders would not trade with him, and the postman would not deliver the post.

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TIL flushing cat poop kills sea otters by infecting them with toxoplasmosis

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TIL that Franklin Roosevelt probably didn't have polio. His symptoms were more consistent with an autoimmune disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome.

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TIL ketchup started as a Chinese fish-based sauce, then it was picked up by the British and made into a mushroom-based sauce, and finally picked up by the Americans and made into a tomato-based sauce.

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TIL in 2016, Shabani, a male Gorilla at a Japanese zoo received worldwide attention when women started flocking to see him as they thought him to be extremely handsome and manly. The crowds of women yelling his name made him so uncomfortable, zoo staff had to put up signs telling them to stop

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TIL neutron star PSR J1748-2446 is the fastest spinning celestial object in the universe. The star rotates 716 times every second, so its equator moves at about 25% the speed of light. It is also 50 trillion times the density of lead and has a magnetic field a trillion times stronger than the Sun’s.

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TIL about Seretse Khama, a Botswana monarch who was exiled after marrying a white woman. After his return as a private citizen, he started an independence movement, became a president and led Botswana to prosperity.

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TIL that pirates didn't wear the eyepatches because of a lost eye, it was actually to be able to see below deck, where it was dark.

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TIL Gerbils are illegal as pets in California due to its climate being so similar to the gerbil's natural desert habitat that state officials are concerned that gerbils who escape or are released into the wild could establish feral colonies

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TIL Bees don't poop in the hive. Over the winter, it builds up because they stay out of the cold. On warm winter days, they will all fly out at the same time on what are called "cleansing flights."

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TIL about "turtle glass". Some states have laws that require coastal homeowners to turn off lights and draw curtains after 9pm because baby turtles migrate out to sea by moonlight and sometimes they get confused by lights and swim inland. Turtle glass is special window that doesn't reflect moonlight

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TIL Mongolian barbecue is not Mongolian - it was invented by a Taiwanese comedian/restaurateur.

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TIL 800 years before the Black Death, the same bacteria cause plague in the Byzantine Empire. At it's peak, the plague killed 5,000 per day in Constantinople.

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TIL that haunted house attractions didn't really go mainstream in North America until the Great Depression, when parents began organizing haunted houses or trails to keep young men from causing trouble on All Hallow's Eve.

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TIL Joe Kennedy, JFK's father, made a fortune as a stock market and commodity investor before cashing in all his stocks just days before the stock market crash of 1929. Consequentially, he was one of the few people who vastly increased their fortune during the great depression.

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TIL After capturing Moscow, Napoleon expected Tsar Alexander to sue for peace. The Tsar procrastinated, then heard that Napoleon's army was suffering from lack of supplies: so the Tsar remained absent, & after a month Napoleon had to retreat through the winter, which destroyed his army.

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TIL about Thad Roberts, a NASA intern who stole millions of dollars worth of moon rocks with his girlfriend, had sex with her on top of the moon rocks, tried to sell the rocks, and ended up in prison.

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TIL: Relative to their size, leaf-blowers are among the most polluting machines ever invented. 1/3 of their fuel is released into the air unburned, as an aerosol; and the amount of pollutants released from running one for 30 minutes is equivalent to that of an F-150 driving from Texas to Alaska.

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TIL that because penguins have no predators on land, whenever they see a different species they just think it's a strange-looking penguin.

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TIL that if a cat headbutts you the cat is marking you with their scent and headbutting is typically used for bonding and social purposes.

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TIL honey bees aren't native to North America. When they arrived from Europe they spread out faster than the colonists, and Native Americans considered the appearance of the "white man's fly" to indicate the approach of European settlers

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TIL in 2013 a local tv station anchor read the names of 4 pilots involved in a crash landing for Asiana Flight 214 into SFO from a telepromptor as Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow, without realizing the names were obvious trolling. Four members of the station lost their jobs.

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TIL about Dewey Beard, the last Native American veteran of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn. In 1892, his family was killed by the US Army at the Wounded Knee Massacre, and he was shot. In 1942, the Department of War confiscated his land to form a firing range. He died in poverty in 1955.

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TIL The US government imposed a livestock reduction on the Navajo in the 1930s. They bulldozed trenches,herded sheep and goats into them, coated them in flammable liquid, and burned them alive. They were promised land expansion that never materialized. From the memoir of Chester Nez, Code Talker.

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TIL of king penguin, Lala who was injured and nursed back to health in Japan. He didn't leave so the family adopted him and lived in a air-conditioned room. He walked around the neighborhood and got himself fishes from the store. He lived with the family for 10 years before dying of old age in 1996.

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TIL that Kirk Douglass, the father of Michael Douglass (who is 75 years old), is STILL alive. Born in 1916, he is 102 years old and currently one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age.

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TIL TIL Steve McQueen was demoted to private seven times by the Marines; he then saved the lives of other Marines by pulling them from a sinking tank, after which he was assigned to guard the presidential yacht of US President Harry Truman

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TIL of the ABC TV show Turn-On, which debuted February 1969. The first episode was so bad, one affiliate refused to return to it after the commercial break. Several west coast affiliates refused to air the show at all. Before the first episode had finished playing, the show was cancelled.

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TIL In 2001, the Mongolian Navy consisted of just 7 members, and only 1 of them knew how to swim

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TIL that Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas and to satisfy SAG rules he had to change it due to some obscure guy with the same name.

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TIL: Decades of studies have shown that parenting has the largest effect on a child's grades, not the quality of the school. Affluent families produce better grades regardless of the school due to having more interactions with their parents, resulting in a 30 million average word gap by age 3.

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TIL Ewan McGregor, who famously played Obi-Wan Kenobi, has a brother - Colin McGregor who is a British RAF pilot and his call-sign is "Obi Two".

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TIL that Steve Irwin paid for one of his security guards to go and train MMA at one of the best gyms in the USA, that security guard, Kyle Noke, would go on to fight in the UFC and credits Irwin as a major reason why he achieved his dreams.

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TIL The Buddha recommended eating rice porridge, saying "There are these five benefits in rice porridge. What five? It stills hunger, dispels thirst, settles wind, cleans out the bladder, and promotes the digestion of the remnants of undigested food. These are the five benefits of rice porridge."

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TIL in 2001, a baby bear, lion, and tiger were rescued from a drug dealers house in Atlanta. They had bonded as a trio and remained friends for over 15 years. Usually as animals grow older, they grow apart from other species, but these three remained close and even lived in the same habitat.

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TIL: The actor who played Marvin in Pulp Fiction is the voice of Herme's from Futurama, Samurai Jack & more!

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TIL that for over 100 years, Canada forced many Indigenous children to attend Residential schools away from their families years at a time. The quality of instruction was sub-par, many children were physically, sexually, and mentally abused, and at least 4000 children died in the school system.

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TIL rabies victims develop an aversion to water because the virus reproduces in the salivary glands; drinking water would reduce the risk of spreading to new hosts.

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TIL Hello Kitty is the 2nd highest grossing media franchise of all time at $80 Billion, behind Pokemon ($95 Billion), beating out other franchises such as Star Wars, Marvel, and Mickey Mouse.

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TIL: American bankers made hundred of millions by pretending to trade aluminum, thus driving the price up.

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TIL: As of 2015, Japan's pachinko market generates more gambling revenue than that of Las Vegas, Macau and Singapore combined.

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TIL that ants have designated paramedics that are assigned to rescue their wounded soldiers, carry them back to their nest and help them heal by gently holding the hurt limb in place with their mandibles and front legs while intensely “licking” the wound for up to 4 minutes.

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TIL that the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in caves in the Judaean Desert from 1945-1956 in 11 caves contain 981 different manuscripts having great historical & religious significance as they include the 2nd oldest manuscripts included in the Hebrew Bible along with extra-biblical manuscripts.

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TIL the phenomenon of forgetting things when you enter a room is called "Doorway Effect". Crossing from one side of the door to the other side causes a mental block in your brain to erase the old memory and make a room to a new one

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TIL Pokémon is the highest grossing media franchise of all time with $95 billion, beating out other franchises such as Star Wars, Marvel and Mickey Mouse.

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TIL the female backing volalist on the Rolling Stone's "Gimme Shelter", Merry Clayton, was pregnant when summoned to the recording studio late at night, and suffered a miscarriage a few hours after strenously singing the famous line "Rape, murder! It's just a shot away! It's just a shot away!"

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TIL Don LaFontaine, the movie trailer voice guy, offered to record an answering machine message for anyone that contacted him, if he had the time. He received so many requests, he had to stop offering.

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TIL about Aimo Koivunen, who overdosed on methamphetamine in WW2 while evading Soviet forces and ended up skiing 100km during the night losing his squad, ammunition and food supplies

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