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TIL wealthy Chinese criminals occasionally hire look-a-likes to serve their prison sentence

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PY8Xw TIL of John Carpenter, the first person to win on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". He didn't use any Lifelines until the final question when he called his dad only to say that he didn't actually need any help, and just wanted to tell him that he was about to win a million dollars.
78Nap TIL there’s a sea creature called the Skeleton Panda Sea Squirt that looks like a tiny floating panda with a skeleton inside. It was discovered near Japan and officially named Clavelina ossipandae, which means “little bottle of panda bones.”
woG4P TIL- If you kill an ant that’s infesting your home, they will release pheromones and act as a calling card for more ants to come into your home to recover their bodies and investigate the danger.
8eL7b TIL "Dancing Plagues" occasionally broke out in the Middle Ages, where people could/would not stop dancing, occasionally even dying of exhaustion
oB7ro TIL the prop used as Radar O'Reilly's teddy bear in MAS*H was a 1950s-vintage Cubbi Gund Cuddle Bear. Considering the television show was set during the Korean War, the prop master chose a Teddy bear that would have been appropriate for the time period.