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TIL there's a permanent scale model solar system in Sweden, with a huge globe arena as the sun.

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R7BP6 TIL in 1947, MGM produced The Cat Concerto and Warner Bros released a similar Bugs Bunny cartoon. Both used identical gags, the same piece by Fransz Liszt, and similar endings. Both MGM and Warner Bros. accused each other of plagiarism, after both films were submitted for Academy Awards ceremony.
axEo TIL Mountain gorillas are naturally afraid of chameleons and nobody knows why.
GQ57 TIL that one of the earliest surviving pornographic films, called El Satario, features three young women bathing in a river having sex with each other, and then the devil appears and one of the women has oral sex with the devil.
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6EvQm TIL- Bees don't buzz during an eclipse - Using tiny microphones suspended among flowers, researchers recorded the buzzing of bees during the 2017 North American eclipse. The bees were active and noisy right up to the last moments before totality. As totality hit, the bees all went silent in unison.