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TIL of the battle of changping which cost 1 million lives between 262BC-260BC

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9YnbG TIL Chris Columbus, director of the first and second Harry Potter films, planned for his adaptation of the fourth book to have 4-5 hrs of footage split into 2 films - one released Thanksgiving, the other on Christmas
PYr4e TIL that "zombies" first appeared on movie screens in a 1919 French film called J’accuse. Director Abel Gance used soldiers on leave from fighting in Verdun to portray “an army of the dead.”
ADdno TIL Figs are only possible because of fig wasps. Females enter a fig, to lay her eggs and pollinate the fruit. She dies, her eggs hatch, the male mates with the female hatchlings and chew escape holes for females to leave and lay her eggs in another fig. Too tired, the males die in the fig as well.
XEkaE TIL of Lucy, a chimpanzee who was raised to believe she was human. She learned to sign over 250 words and some of her hobbies included drinking gin, browsing Playgirl magazines, and masturbating using a vacuum cleaner.
JYaEj TIL Germans have a tool to exactly cut boiled eggs. The tool is named an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher.