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TIL Ants can survive in a microwave: they find the coolest spot inside and keep still

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O4oX TIL Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.
JYkJv TIL after a successful fan fundraiser in 2019 the British town of Newhaven unveiled a memorial bench honoring rapper Eazy-E. When faced with criticism, the idea's proponent said that "It’s better than nothing, which is pretty much all Newhaven has."
v1Xyr TIL That Stephen Hawking once threw a party for Time Travelers, but only sent out the invitation after the party was over.
v1Jjj TIL a woman sued CBS, Showtime, and the New York City subway system because an ad for the show "Dexter" was so scary that it made her fall down a flight of stairs.
wLVx6 TIL that, in order to evade taxes, "Hollywood accounting" is so egregious that the Lord of the Rings trilogy "made horrendous losses and no profit at all"