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TIL that Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball Z, never wrote down background notes for characters or for the series. In fact, he actually admitted forgetting there was a Super Saiyan 2, he drew Goku transforming straight from Super Saiyan 1 to 3.

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R7ZX9 TIL that farmers in India used to catch monkeys by putting peanuts in coconuts and walking up to them. The holes in the coconut had to be big enough to allow them to slip their hands inside and small enough so that when they grabbed the peanuts and formed a fist they couldn't take their hands out.
a8O1Z TIL that Mozart wrote a song for performer Adriana Ferrarese del Bene, who was known for nodding her head down on low notes and raising her head on high notes, that contained many jumps from low to high notes. This caused her head to move in a way that Mozart found amusing.
QrN9 TIL the scientists (and everyone else) in Antarctica have ‘heedless sex’ (16,500 condoms are distributed to 200 people spending the winter), taking 'ice wives’ and 'ice husbands,’ and also binge-drink, do drugs and generally go completely nuts, and is pretty much the only reason anyone goes back.
LdWm TIL Lyndon Johnson was the only President sworn in by a woman; it occurred on Air Force One after Kennedy’s assassination.
P6BZ TIL in responding to why he starred in Jaws: The Revenge, Michael Caine said “I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”