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TIL the 1991 movie Hook was originally meant to be a musical
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TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
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TIL that Mel Brooks originally wanted to name his Star Wars spoof movie, Planet Moron. Which was later abandoned due to another movie that was released with similar titles. Brooks and his collaborators came up with what we know as a cult classic, Space Balls.
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TIL that researchers are studying fireflies to increase LED output. The study of the glowing mechanism of fireflies has helped increase LED output by 55% so far.
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TIL of the Chagossians, an ethnic group native to the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean. In the 1970s, all of them were ethnically cleansed in able to build a US military base. In 2016, they were denied the right to return after a 45-year legal dispute.
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TIL a theremin is a musical instrument that depends on electromagnetic fields created around its antennae, which players move their hands or fingers around to change pitch or volume.