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TIL Craig Ferguson won a Peabody Award in 2009 for his interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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wLDNM TIL that for the movie "O Brother, Where art Thou?", the cows that were shot and hit by the police car looked so realistic that the American Humane Society wouldn't immediately certify the movie as "No Animals Were Harmed". A representative had to be shown how they were digitally created ten times.
eWN6 TIL that the portrait on Sam Adams beer bottles isn’t Sam Adams, but Paul Revere.
rNY1W TIL 536 was truly the ‘worst’ year to be alive
N7Ma8 TIL that spiders can fly using Earth's electrical field. Spiders have flown 'two-and-a-half miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.'
wLpG1 TIL a party game popular from Medieval to Victorian times was "Hot Cockles", where you would bury your face in a friend's lap and guess who spanked you.