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TIL of a parasitic fungus that turns ants into 'zombies'

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JYxW4 TIL Stieg Larsson, author of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' part of the Millennium trilogy, died in 2004 due to a heart attack. The Milennium trilogy was published posthumously & has sold over 80 million copies today.
nWgvd TIL that a 29-year-old J. J. Abrams did uncredited work with Steven Spielberg on the script for 'Casper' (1995), with Spielberg making the movie "one night at a time...there was a script, but they ended up basically improvising every night over dinner, and the next day, they'd film it".
p8Yk8 TIL during the closing credits of the South Park episode 'Trapped in the Closet', all names were replaced with either "John Smith" or "Jane Smith". This was done to shield any of the production staff from potential lawsuits.
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5VvDk TIL that the game now known as lawn tennis was originally called Sphairistike.