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TIL All the planets fit between earth and the moon

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VBE68 TIL there was a psychiatric hospital in Utah that created a haunted house for the public during Halloween season well into the 1990’s.
YpxlG TIL that in Iceland, if you want to make your own necropants (nábrók), you have to get permission from a living man to use his skin after his death, flay his lower body after he's buried, then steal a coin from a poor widow and place it in the scrotum. The coin will draw money into the scrotum.
OKJ7 TIL When a giant Asian hornet enters a Japanese honeybee’s hive, hundreds of bees emerge to form a violently-vibrating ball around it; the frenzy increases CO2 levels & the temperature to 115°F, which together are lethal to the hornet but not to the bees which can withstand up to 122°F.
Xv8E TIL George Lucas approached Mark Hamill in 1983 and asked him if he’d like to play an elderly, mentoring Luke to hand the story to the next generation. When Hamill asked “When?”, Lucas replied with, “Oh, around 2011.”
B5WD TIL of Imposter Syndrome - a concept describing achieving individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a “fraud”.