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TIL The Saber-Tooth Squirrel in Ice Age was made up, until a real one was discovered in 2011

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ANWP7 TIL Bees HATE cinnamon - eliminate unwanted hiving bees with a teaspoon of cinnamon.
gMBb8 TIL of the 1937 Fox vault fire, in which 40,000 films were destroyed. 75% of all 20th Century Fox films from before 1930 were lost. There are actors for whom not a single copy of a single one of their films survive.
6Enwl TIL that in 1975, Sean Connery co-wrote a script for a Bond film called "Warhead". It features Spectre, from a secret base in the Statue of Liberty, launching an attack on NYC. Robotic hammerhead sharks, armed with nuclear weapons, are sent into the city’s sewers to wreak destruction as they explode
vaG7 TIL wet hay can spontaneously combust causing barn fires
P57L TIL oranges are dyed orange when the weather is not cold enough to produce the characteristic skin color.