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TIL that Terrence Malick has been editing his latest film for 6 years. Shooting wrapped in 2019.

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nZDd TIL that apple orchards rent thousands of bees in hives from bee keepers to pollinate their trees in the spring. After a couple weeks when the trees have been pollinated the bee keeper comes back for his hives and transports them to the next orchard in need.
J18Pm TIL there is a town in Norway where it is illegal to die as bodies cannot decompose due to cold temperatures
BG1x TIL the original candidate for DC Comics’ first headlining black superhero was Black Bomber, a white racist who turned into a black superhero under stress. He was described by historian Don Markstein as “an insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all.”
5VDQp TIL the universe is not "locally real"—the evidence provided by 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients John Clauser, Alain Aspect, & Anton Zeilinger, who showed that objects are not influenced solely by their surroundings ("local") and may also lack definite properties prior to measurement ("real").
Brn4K TIL the One Ring prop in the Lord of the Rings movies was based on a simple wedding ring.