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TIL Courage the Cowardly Dog was nominated for an Oscar

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7rPBp TIL that scientists once gave drugs to bees, and found that they respond similarly to humans: bees on cocaine tend to overestimate the amount of sugar they find and exaggerate when reporting back to the hive.
G6y1 TIL that a 23 year old French con artist impersonated and assumed the identity of a 16 year old missing Texas boy, living with the boy’s family for months, despite retaining his French accent and having different colored eyes from the missing teen.
a8VOM TIL: A Mambo No. 5 cover by Bob the Builder went to number 1 in the UK on 9th September 2001, but was removed from BBC radio playlists after the 9/11 attacks as it was ‘too frivolous’
oBLx8 TIL Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. for writing the Ghostbusters theme song, claiming he stole it from his hit, “I Want a New Drug”
wOR8 TIL that in 2017, the US will experience its first total solar eclipse since 1979, and that people from several countries are already trying to make hotel reservations―years in advance!