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TIL Bees HATE cinnamon - eliminate unwanted hiving bees with a teaspoon of cinnamon.

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780or TIL Peter Falk — known for playing the title character of NBC's Columbo — wore a glass eye. Once, while playing baseball in high school, he got in a disagreement with an umpire over a missed call. Falk popped out the glass eye, handed it to the umpire and said "try this."
pYGDZ TIL about Matthew Hopkins, believed responsible for the executions of 100+ “witches” in 1644–1646
yBvl TIL that author J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan) founded a cricket team whose members included, among others, Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book), H. G. Wells (War of the Worlds), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), P. G. Wodehouse (Jeeves & Wooster), and A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh).
pNe8 TIL Steve Carell thinks Will Ferrell is ‘almost impossible’ to work with because he’s so funny.
r6wx TIL that Dennis Hopper was doing 3 grams of cocaine and drinking a half a gallon of rum and 28 beers a day around the time he acted in Apocalypse Now.