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mxYDY TIL In the The Real Ghostbusters cartoon series, the season 1 episode "Take Two" has the Ghostbusters flying to Hollywood to visit the set of a movie based on their adventures. At the end of the episode it's revealed to be the 1984 live action film, meaning the cartoon is real but the movie is fake.
neKao TIL Homing Pigeons can average a speed of 60mph over 600 miles, and reach speeds of up to 100mph in short bursts.
QPOp TIL a man hired assassins to kill his son’s WoW avatar to get him to stop playing
9Gp7 TIL in 1859, Joshua Norton declared himself Emperor of the United States of America and the people of San Francisco went along with it, accepting his currency, paying for his meals, and even got the police to salute him in the streets. Nearly 30,000 people flooded the streets for his funeral.
p8884 TIL that making a purple pigment used to dye clothes for royalty in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome involved harvesting the pigment from rotting snails. The stench was so bad that Jewish law specifically granted women the right to divorce any husband who became a dyer after marrying.