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TIL Cooking show celebrity Alton Brown was the cinematographer for the music video for R.E.M.’s “The One I Love.”

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A1Wl TIL hat Bill Nye “The Science Guy” got his start in show business in Seattle doing sketch comedy. His other character beside Science Guy was a Speedwalking Seattle Superhero.
dDRWj TIL until the mid-1990s the Italian-American mafia controlled trash collection in New York City, fixing prices by extorting or murdering competitors or requiring them to join the price-fixing cartel. After an undercover operation convicted the leaders, trash collection costs dropped by $600 million.
PGLL TIL that in all figs we eat, there is a corpse of a fig-wasp inside that has deposited it’s eggs inside the fig meanwhile pollinating it. The wasp never leaves the fig again and dies inside.
7rdaX TIL mail-in ballots work
dDKbK TIL that the Curiosity rover, currently on Mars, is 10 feet long and 7 feet tall, "about the size of a small SUV."