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TIL John Hughes wrote the script of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in just 6 days.

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pKB8 TIL customer service reps can see what you’re typing before you hit send.
X0Z1D TIL The movie Footloose was inspired by a real ban on dancing in Elmore City Oklahoma that made dancing in public illegal from the 1800s until 1979.
wLJpP TIL about the Memphis Peabody Marching Ducks. Every day at 11am they saunter down a red carpet to the hotel's water fountain, hang out for 6 hours then saunter back up to the rooftop. They've been doing this for over 30 years.
XDxQ TIL that a class of 8 - 10 year olds conceived of, executed and published a significant scientific paper on bee behavior that was the Editor’s choice in Science and the 2nd most downloaded paper on Biology Letters. It is written in “kid-speak” and its figures are colored with crayon.
w7gP TIL that in early feudal Japan there was a class of female Samurai called Onna-Bugeisha who commonly engaged in battle alongside the men and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war.