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TIL there is a strawberry in Japan that costs $500

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Ox74 TIL Marlon Brando was in an acting class that was told to act like chickens and that a nuclear bomb was about to fall on them. Most of the class clucked wildly, but Brando sat calmly and pretended to lay an egg. When Stella Adler asked why he said, “I’m a chicken, What do I know about bombs?”
xVNwb TIL For several hundred thousand years, the Sahara has alternated between desert and savanna grassland in a 20,000 year cycle. The area is next expected to become green in about 15,000 years, in 17,000 AD.
j7nn TIL, according to a report in Britain’s BMJ medical journal, nearly 1 percent of young women in a U.S. study who have become pregnant claim to have done so as virgins.
LQDyr TIL J.K. Simmons has been voicing the yellow M&M since 1996
xmrk TIL that in the Victorian era, it was a thing to send “Vinegar” or Hate valentines anonymously to people you disliked. They were often incredibly harsh, and some even suggested the recipient go kill themselves.