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TIL that you would have to consume 1,500 pounds of marijuana in 15 minutes to overdose

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ABWg TIL that Autrian ethologist Karl von Frisch was nominated for the Noble Prize in 1927 for his work on deciphering the Waggle dance of honey bees. Using the Waggle dance, a bee communicates to other worker bees the direction and distance of the most productive flowers using the angle of the sun.
7joM TIL There’s a brewery in Germany that’s almost 1,000 years old. It has been in continuous operation since the year 1040
41na TIL Tim Roth refused to audition for Reservoir Dogs & told Tarantino “just watch my past work.” Tarantino gave him the part while drunk, but later watched Roth’s last film, in which he said Tim Roth “was awful! He was the worst!”
rNl5w TIL of siren battles, a New Zealand subculture where where music fans install dozens of speakers on their cars and compete to have the loudest, clearest sounds. Celine Dion songs are popular due to their high treble and low bass
awOao TIL Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC were established by the same financier, Lou Pearlman, who, among numerous other schemes, infamously classified himself as the “sixth member of the band” to siphon profits away from the artists.