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TIL Apple doesn’t allow a villain to use an iPhone in a movie

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jNYER TIL Bricks of compressed black tea (mǐ zhūan chá) were used as currency in Tibet, Mongolia and Siberia in the 19th and early 20th century.
16a8V TIL in 1969, top composer Louis Andriessen and others disrupted a Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra concert with nutcrackers and bicycle horns, giving leaflets about the lack of Dutch new music in the orchestra's programming. They did a week in jail but sparked some Dutch music scene change.
5K9n TIL new queen bees make a “piping” sound to announce their presence to other queens in the hive – and signal their intent to kill them all.
9YYEr TIL that Stewart Copeland's (drummer for The Police) father was a powerful CIA officer and was involved in overthrowing the governments of Syria and Iran
PY4ML TIL of Spurious Correlation. A phenomenon where two unrelated events coincidentally occur in the same pattern over time, such as the 99% correlation between the divorce rate in Maine and the per capita consumption of margarine.