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TIL Morgan Freeman converted his ranch to a Bee Sanctuary

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JE5m TIL Buzz Aldrin “McGuyverd” a broken circuit breaker on the Apollo 11 lander with a felt-tip pen, without which Aldrin and Armstrong would have died on the moon
yVbYa TIL the last on-screen appearance Orson Welles ever made was on the TV show Moonlighting, where he read an introduction to assure audiences that the sudden shift to black-and-white is not a sign there is something wrong with their televisions.
dAKQ TIL that during the recording of Iron Maiden’s “Number of the Beast”, unexplained phenomena occurred. This all climaxed when the producer, Martin Birch, was involved in a car accident with a mini-bus transporting a group of nuns, after which he was presented with a repair bill for £666.
168ND TIL that Magikarp is based off of a folktale about a carp swimming upstream and if it gets past the dragon gate it turns into a dragon. It's meant to be a symbol of passing the imperial exams
Y4xW TIL no one caught the Zika virus at the Rio Olympics