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TIL: Some wasps make honey
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TIL: Duckie’s dance in the movie "Pretty In Pink" was originally set to The Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up.” After a failed attempt to secure the song rights, Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness” was chosen instead, with choreographer Kenny Ortega (Dirty Dancing) teaching Jon Cryer how to dance.
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TIL about Andy George, who makes a chicken sandwich entirely from scratch. He grew his own veggies, travelled via plane to collect ocean water to make salt, milked a cow to make butter and cheese, killed a chicken, and grew wheat for flour. The entire project took six months and costs him $1,500.
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TIL Quincy Jones was supposed to be at the house on the night actress Sharon Tate and her friends were murdered by the Manson Family. He spent the day with one of the victims (Jay Sebring), but didn't turn up that evening.
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TIL that Native Americans also used Alcatraz as a prison
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TIL that Sea Spiders breathe mostly through their legs. They are exclusively marine, are more diverse and larger in size in Antarctic waters than anywhere else and have survived all mass extinctions since their first appearance in the fossil record 480 Million years ago.