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TIL Cheap Date, 18 Wheeler, Dreadlocks, Van Gogh, Clown, Tinman, Indy, Boss, and Swiss Cheese are some of the names of fruit fly genes.

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ANKpx TIL in 2017, Morgan Spurlock of “Super Size Me” admitted to a history of alcohol abuse, which is now thought to better account for his various health symptoms originally attributed to McDonald’s food.
VBoAp TIL the term "box office" stems back to Shakespearean / Elizabethan times when theatre boxes were sold from an office location in front of venues. Shakespeare's own Globe theatre had a box office.
N7rA1 TIL that the fictional town of Bikini Bottom from the show SpongeBob Square Pants is shown in the series to be underneath a real place called Bikini Atoll; a former nuclear test site that is still uninhabitable today.
Nkx8 TIL “Serenity” was the first high definition movie to be cracked and torrented.
QNJZ9 TIL that a Marylin Monroe impersonator lives in the real Marylin Monroe's old house.