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5VlVk TIL that HBO ordered a 2014 drama series about a “dynastic New York media family and its mogul patriarch” from the creator of Deadwood. It was not picked up.
j6RGM TIL of the Stoned Ape Theory. The theory of how the consumption of psilocybin mushrooms led to a rapid increase of cognitive brain function, and ultimately the evolution from Homo erectus to Homo sapian.
NGyE TIL when the first McDonald’s opened in Britain in 1974, culture shock was experienced. A couple of early customer noted with dismay there was no butter on the bread roll, or cutlery to eat with.
RvK9 TIL that Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, had a son who remained loyal to the British crown and fled to London after the war and stayed there for the rest of his life
5Y4VP TIL that beetles were the first pollinators