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TIL Tom Hanks Steve Martin, and Martin Short have their colonoscopies done together and even ride in the same car...

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8egLX TIL that in July 1982, a mentally disturbed man named Michael Fagan entered Buckingham Palace twice and set off alarms both times (that were cleared with little investigation). The first time he encountered a maid and ended up drinking a bottle of wine. The second time, he made it to the Queen.
x6KG7 TIL that all species of octopus are venomous, but only the Blue Ringed Octopus has venom that can harm humans.
wE1P TIL that the company that makes Atrazine, a vastly used herbicide that has been linked to breast cancer; also manufacturers the drug that is a treatment for breast cancer.
KOvk4 TIL during production of the 1935 musical Cain and Mabel the film crew realized the sound stage wasn't big enough, but they didn't have time to rip the roof off and build the walls up, so WB put hand jacks around the it and raised it off the ground before building wall underneath it.
LkYjp TIL that the number of bacteria on earth is estimated to be 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. This is five million trillion trillion or 5 x 10 to the 30th power.