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TIL its legal to hunt wild boars from a helicopter in the state of Texas

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OG6J6 TIL Humphrey Bogart was an avid chess player and often played correspondence chess with soldiers overseas during World War II. In 1943, the FBI told him to stop doing so after they intercepted his mail believing the chess notations to be secret codes.
d8pBd TIL Myrmica sabuleti, or the Myrmica Ant, is often tricked by a caterpillar species that pretends to be ant larvae. It waits on a thyme leaf until the ants spot it and carry it to their nest, where it then feeds on ant grubs for the next 10 months before emerging as a Large Blue butterfly.
b664 TIL that when James French was executed by the electric chair in 1966, his last words were “How’s this for a headline? French fries.”
VorB TIL Peter Ostrum, who played “Charlie” in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”, only ever had one film role and made his living by becoming a veterinarian.
R7gv6 TIL that Sister Act was originally intended as a vehicle for Bette Midler. When Whoopi Goldberg got the role, after Midler turned it down, the writer, Paul Rudnick, did not want to be associated with the film and was credited under a pseudonym.