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TIL Bill Nye The Science Guy Has a Plan to Launch Laser Bees into Space to Defend Earth Against Asteroids

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B8Xd TIL the Budget for the Makeup of Dallas Buyers Club was $250. The film would go on to win the oscar for Best Makeup.
lBV7 TIL there has been a National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, every year since 1900, where a hobo is crowned King (and sometimes Queen).
RAKl TIL that horses cannot vomit due to the angle their esophagus enters their stomach and the muscle tone of their esophago-gastric junction. If a horse does vomit it means that they are close to death
GBGJ TIL Elvis Presley asked Richard Nixon if he could get a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Presley believed the badge would allow him to legally enter any country with whatever weapons and drugs he wanted. Nixon obliged.
0rWN TIL Offenders convicted of murdering white females were more than 14 times more likely to be sentenced to death than were offenders convicted of murdering black males