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TIL that cetaceans blow bubble rings seemlingly for amusement

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GAo4Q TIL Bill Nye quit his job at Boeing to be a stand up comic after winning a Steve Martin look alike contest in 1978.
QpOp TIL In the original ‘Good Will Hunting’ script, there is a surprise gay sex scene between the two straight leads. It was purposely put there as a test to see if studios actually read the script. Harvey Weinstein was the only producer who mentioned the scene, so his studio got the movie.
0OaN TIL that in 2014, three mycologists (fungus experts) from Kew Gardens in England, analysed the DNA of a supermarket packet of dried porcini mushrooms and found three species unknown to science.
woKX8 TIL that Frank Zappa was mobbed by TV reporters at Prague airport, much to the shock of Shirley Temple who was the then-ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
N7nGE TIL, Elliott Rodger, perpetrator of the Isla Vista killings of 2014, got his head taped to a desk while he was asleep when being bullied by other students, and became increasingly isolated over time after he turned 18, and was unable to make friends before the tragedy he is known for.