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TIL Band of Brothers premiered September 9, 2001

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lZ4K TIL English farmer Angus Wielkopolski discovered that goats produce more milk listening to Mariah Carrey’s all I want for Christmas tune than any other song. They found that the goats produced up to half a pint more when Carey’s famous Christmas track was played.
0N95 TIL Ed O'Neil is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
DKXY TIL that when male honey bees mate, their penises explode and they die. During the queen’s nuptial flight, she’ll mate with about a dozen partners and leave a trail of dead, penisless bees in her wake.
QNej6 TIL of Fordlândia, Henry Ford's failed rubber utopia in the Amazon jungle. In the 1920s, the colony was home to hundreds of workers living a mandatory alcohol-free "healthy lifestyle," including square-dances, poetry readings, and golf, but ended up totally abandoned after riots and crop failure.
kVWB TIL that Elvis Presley flew from Memphis to Denver and back to eat the Fool’s Gold Loaf: a single warmed, hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with the contents of one jar of creamy peanut butter, one jar of jelly, and a pound of bacon.