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TIL Rhino horn is worth MORE than it's weight in Gold or Cocaine.

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epkN4 TIL In the film "Dirty dancing", Patrick Swayze found Jennifer Grey very "unprofessional" and in a scene Jennifer Grey kept getting ticklish when when they had to film a scene where she raises her arm and he had to stroke her side. They did that take 20 times and she burst into laughter every time.
9BVD TIL Bethesda Softworks was actually offered to make an official open world Game of Thrones game in 2011, but turned it down in order to make Skyrim.
OGxk7 TIL that the alien bodies retrieved at the 1947 Roswell crash were actually deformed children created by Nazi Joseph Melenge and sent by Stalin in an effort to create panic of a Mars invasion.
E1ae0 TIL that the jury selection for the O. J. Simpson trial had very strict rules about exposure to the media. One juror was excluded for watching cartoons with her children, another for waking up to a clock radio. When a book about O. J. and Nicole came out, jurors were warned to keep out of bookstores
8LaG TIL there is an electric bell in Oxford University that has been ringing almost continously for 175 years.