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TIL that scientists have found the second most widely used herbicide in the US has gotten into the water supply, causes sexual abnormalities in frogs, and is associated with birth defects in humans and animals

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eD4J TIL that after filming Zulu director Cy Endfield could not pay the Zulu extras because of South Africa’s apartheid laws, he circumvented this by leaving all the animals they used including Cattle, a gift more valuable than money to the Zulus.
x6bZo TIL The man who sold the world was a David Bowie song. Three decades of my life were lived in dank ignorance 🥲
Elw0 TIL there is a charity that pays $300 to drug addicts if they get sterilized
LQyNV TIL that squid have eight arms and two tentacles, not ten arms/tentacles
7XVX TIL: The movie Gone With The Wind, When adjusted for monetary inflation,is still the most successful film in box-office history.