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TIL The Hong Kong Stock Exchange closes for an hour for lunch
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X7n6
TIL James Earl Jones was only paid $7,000 for his work as Darth Vader. If he had taken points instead he would have made 10’s of millions of dollars.
WkeOo
TIL the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon was created to sell the toy line by Playmates. They'd produce toys based on the darker indie comic only if they got a cartoon to promote it. They got different colored masks so kids could tell them apart and toned down drastically so parents wouldn't mind
mK6o
TIL that alligators in Louisiana have learned to balance sticks on their snouts specifically during egret and heron nesting season, when the birds are actively searching for nest materials. This is the first known case of predators using lures based on seasonal prey behavior.
GY654
TIL a lawsuit between Gilbert O'Sullivan and Biz Markie over a sampling of "Alone Again" led to the requirement of licensing and fees to sample parts of song, which in turn made it prohibitively expensive to sample multiple songs into a new piece, which had been a common practice in hip hop
4XeR
TIL that an orangutan named Fu Manchu repeatedly escaped from his cage at the zoo using a key he had fashioned from a piece of wire. Every time his zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth.