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TIL Actor Samuel L Jackson was a pallbearer at Martin Luther King Junior's funeral

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nebYP TIL as Alex Trebek was not able to retire on his own terms, one of the final phone calls he made was to Ken Jennings regarding taking over the hosting duties of "Jeopardy!". Trebek passed away the same weekend as this call, having hosted his final shows less than two weeks prior to his death.
dwd7 TIL that the Macrocilix maia moth confuses predators with wing patterns that mimic two flies eating bird shit. It even releases a pungent odor to drive home the deception.
a8Epy TIL: That under the pseudonym Doctor Spin, Andrew Lloyd Webber once released a Eurodance cover version of the most famous tune in the Game Boy version of the game Tetris. The song was popular at the time and reached number 6 on the UK singles chart in 1992.
0wO6N TIL there is a concept for so called Solar Updraft Towers that are generating electricity from low temperature solar heat without solar panlels
VBYOk TIL Broccolini was developed in the 1990’s