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9YEXM TIL wild hogs are immune to most poisonous snakes.
dDXe9 TIL: Regina Hall (Brenda from the "Scary Movie" franchise) wanted and tried to become a Catholic Nun in 2010, but was rejected by the order.
y7Z8 TIL after Elon Musk tweeted out the corrupted raw video stream from his Falcon 9 rocket’s vertical landing a group of space enthusiasts made a custom MPEG4 decoder built specifically to clean up the SpaceX footage. Their work verified the rocket landed correctly
8a09a TIL that Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI attempted to escape from France but were recognized and caught in town of Varennes only 40 miles from the border with the Austrian Netherlands
Rre8 TIL the original score for Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was written by Alex North, but Kubrick didn’t like it and switched at the last minute. No one told North, who showed up at the film’s premiere only to be devastated when none of his music was used.