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TIL there are 6000 different species of lady bug

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DQDar TIL the lyrics of the closing song from the movie 'Gladiator' are in a made-up language
WkdM4 TIL that during the silent film era in Japan, narrators called "benshi" would provide introductions, dialogue, and live commentary in theaters while the film was playing on-screen. Some benshi became more famous than the film actors and would be advertised on movie posters.
mxX7p TIL that the Where’s Waldo book series was released with different names internationally. In Britain you were looking for Wally, Germans searched for tiny Walter, the French scoured the pages for petite Charlie, and if you were a young South African you tried to spot a little Willie.
6WEW TIL in 1920 a horse-drawn wagon filled with explosives was blown up on Wall Street in NYC, killing 38 people and injuring hundreds. The perpetrators were never caught.
eQJk TIL The Joker has committed more individual acts of murder than any other villain in the DC universe. His body count is topped only by some extremely powerful supervillains who have laid waste to cities full of people at once.