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TIL that colic does not mean the baby is fussy or just cries a lot. A baby with colic will cry for at least three hours straight, for more than three days a week, for three weeks in a row. No one is sure of the cause

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okDY TIL Jack Nicholson turned down the roles of Travis Bickle, Gordon Gekko, Raymond Babbitt, Michael Corleone and Willard in Apocalypse Now, among many others
8aO9K TIL "Oviparous" refers to egg-laying animals, and "viviparous" refers to animals that give birth to live young. "Ovoviviparous" refers to a hybrid-style where eggs remain inside the mother where they hatch internally and babies come out alive.
VMaBm TIL Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson's grandfather quit drinking "immediately after having a 'religious experience' when he was under the influence of [magic mushrooms]."
78RWL TIL that Pizzly Bears are the offspring of a female Polar Bear and a male Brown Bear. These hyprid Bears are able to breed offspring and to date there have been 8 confirmed hybrids (4 50:50 B:P, 4 75:25 B/P) in the wild. All 4 75:25 came from one 50:50 female and all 4 50:50 came from one female PB.
R7ZG7 TIL the highway chase scene in Terminator: Dark Fate was scripted to be twice as long, with the Terminator killing a cop and stealing his motorcycle. The idea was nixed because the chase was "crazy" enough already.