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TIL in the Halloween film "Hocus Pocus," Billy Bucherson coughed up real life moths. He was fitted with a mouth piece, which consisted of a latex pouch that held the dirt and moths.

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dvrQ TIL that after being captured by the Parthians, the richest man in the Roman world was killed by having molten gold poured into his mouth.
M4Jm TIL That Dennis “Chip” Wilson named his company Lululemon because “Japanese peoples’ inability to pronounce the letter "L”, and the extra effort they would have to make to pronounce the name" and “It’s funny to watch them try and say it,”
Mea40 TIL that 40 Million years ago, six foot tall penguins roamed what's now New Zealand
KOvNw TIL that not only there are three different types of Scotch blue tape, but also they have different "clean removal" time, e.g. blue tape #2090 has 14 days for clean removal, etc.
Z80Ko TIL there are more than 5000 companies worldwide that are older than 200 years. More than 3000 of them are located in Japan and the oldest company in the world was Kongō Gumi, a construction company in Japan, which had its origin traced back to 578 AD. It was liquidated in 2006.