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TIL Chocolate Diamonds are nothing more than unwanted diamonds just marketed well

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rR0Qd TIL John Candy died a few days before the end of filming Wagons East, so according to Wiki, they used, "using a stunt double and special effects" to complete the film. Part of the special effects was just reusing a scene from earlier in the movie. The link is these scenes.
N7ND1 TIL Shakira is an impressive polyglot. She is fluent in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Catalan
8a0pZ TIL The Berlin Wall was not the border between East and West Germany. The City of Berlin was in the middle of East Germany but had several zones controlled by the Western Allies.
x6Ke0 TIL that “e pluribus unum” (“out of many, one”), which appears on the United States Great Seal, originates from an ancient culinary recipe describing the colour of what was being prepared going from the many colors of the ingredients to just one after mixing them all
neZJ9 TIL about the ‘Stoned Ape’ theory the idea that ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms was the "evolutionary catalyst" from which language, projective imagination, the arts, religion, philosophy, science, and all of human culture sprang.