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TIL: California Town Brings in 40,000 Tourists for a Frog Jumping Festival

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X06pE TIL the release of T. Rex's hit single "Get it On" ended the once-solid friendship between Marc Bolan and John Peel: Peel made clear his lack of enthusiasm for the song on air after playing his advance white label copy. They only spoke once more before Bolan's death in 1977.
R77Ol Vaccination is underway for the 2017-2018 seasonal flu, and next year will mark the 100-year anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed roughly 40 million people.
4kyL6 TIL Mary the Color Scientist, a thought experiment, about a scientist in a black & white world, who has extensive knowledge of color but no actual experience of it. The experiment asks whether Mary will gain new knowledge when she goes outside of the colorless world and experiences seeing in color.
b957N TIL about the 1991 "Great Butter Fire" which burned for 8 days (due to water having little effect on the fire), had flames 300ft high, and destroyed 50 million pounds of food.
rNMVy TIL that prop material from David Lynch's Dune (1984) was reused in a raunchy mexican comedy film about two astronauts landing in a planet inhabited solely by women, called “Two trashy guys on the planet of women” (Dune was shot at Estudios Churubusco in Mexico)