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TIL Phuket Province of Thailand is sister cities with Las Vegas, Nevada and Nice, France

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N7EP TIL Mike from “Breaking Bad” began his acting career in an education film on menstruation and puberty in the mid-70’s (go to 1:10)
ARE7 TIL that following her coronation in 1838, 18 year old Queen Victoria returned home to Buckingham Palace and raced upstairs to give her favorite spaniel, Dash, his usual bath.
e0PNb TIL In tropical rainforest ecosystems, dung is a very valuable and limited resource, so instead randomly searching for it on the forest floor, dung beetles actually wait by the anus of the monkey. They grab it as it falls out and actually fall to earth with it.
WkN7Y TIL after 13 years of trying to find the structure of a protein, scientists created an online competitive game that asked gamers to try and solve it. The structure was found in 3 weeks.
Y1QG TIL: An early draft of Charlie and the Chocolate factory featured a sixth child, Miranda Piker, and she met her untimely demise when she was ground into powder by one of Willy Wonka’s candy machines after refusing to listen to him.