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TIL that a snail spent years glued to a card in the British museum before they realized it was alive

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reVy TIL that the actress playing the T1000 as it imitates Sarah Conner near the end of Terminator 2. Leslie Hamilton , Linda’s Hamilton’s real life twin sister.
g4x7 Til the Malaysian government banned the movie ‘Schindlers list’ as the filmed was deemed “propaganda with the purpose of asking for sympathy.”
aJjA TIL 1.5 million bee hives, delivered from all over America, are required to pollinate the Californian almond orchards.
XE4n8 TIL in 1936, Orson Welles directed an entirely African American cast in a production of Macbeth set in the Caribbean, nicknamed Voodoo Macbeth, where Haitian vodou took the place of Scottish witchcraft
mxbAR TIL about Phineas Gage who survived a traumatic brain injury when an iron rod was driven through his entire skull, destroying much of his frontal lobe.