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TIL The first “picture” of Halley’s comet can be seen on the Bayeux tapestry which was possibly completed in 1077

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5YkBk TIL that the movie poster for the 1983 film, Spring Break, featured the hips of 18 y.o. bikini model Tammy Leppert (who also had a bit part in the film) however she vanished in mysterious circumstances not long after the film release and has never been found since.
pgpQ TIL when a factory worker from Wonka was asked about the production of Nerds candy, he said “Basically we start off with a sugar crystal and we just keep coating it with more sugar.”
L86P TIL That When Monopoly was introduced to communist Czechoslovakia, private businesses were illegal and mortgages didn’t exist, so they turned it into a horse racing variant
b9XN4 TIL that when the artist, Melanie Willhide, got her stolen laptop back, all her files were deleted by the burglar. Data recovery experts were able to recover some of them. The photos were corrupted, but she decided to exhibit the work. The show was titled after the burglar.
6EPaJ TIL crows in urban Japan and the United States have innovated a technique to crack hard-shelled nuts by dropping them onto crosswalks and letting them be run over and cracked by cars. Then they retrieve the cracked nuts when the cars are stopped at the red light.