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TIL that urban bees can build their nests with plastic

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440w TIL On a Price is Right taping in September 2008, the Showcase results were halted for 45 minutes - because a contestant had bid the EXACT price ($23,743). Drew Carey claimed he read out the result on-air as deadpan as possible because he was worried the show was crooked and he’d go to jail.
vmwr TIL that the first successful company to market chow mein in the United States was founded by the son of Italian immigrants who used Italian spices in his recipe. President Ford commented, “What could be more American than a business built on a good Italian recipe for chop suey?“
BgbOy TIL that when Charles II of Spain died on 1 November 1700, at age 38, the autopsy recorded that his "heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water." Apart from that he was OK.
grd64 TIL About Fat Men's Clubs, Where Status Seeking Members had to be at least 200 pounds, pay a $1 fee to enter and learn a secret handshake and password
vP8wx TIL Muhammad Ali once appeared in a DC comic book. He knocked out Superman to save him from aliens.