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TIL: Porn Industry Uses Airbnb, Rental Houses for Filming

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NpjJ TIL that 1000 years ago it was Kiev, not Moscow, that was the center of Russian power and culture
pME4 TIL 42 year old New York Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon used stem cells to regenerate broken tissue in his throwing arm. He is the oldest pitcher in the MLB.
Z8xLB TIL of the "Stoned Ape" theory of human evolution which states that early hominids ate "magic mushrooms" growing in the dung of large African Animals and this helped to rapidly evolve the human brain into a state of higher consciousness.
nea9d TIL 40 real squirrels were trained to crack nuts for Charlie & the Chocolate Factory instead of using CGI
OoEN1 TIL in 1826, a restaurant called Atwood & Bacon Oyster House opened in Boston in a building that was already more than 100 years old at the time. Today, it’s called Union Oyster House and is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the US.