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TIL Since the release of ‘Captain Phillips’, there has been controversy over its portrayal of Phillips, with several crew members claiming that he was not the hero presented in the film, and that he was at least partly at fault for an “insistence on being fast and making money.

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9wBJQ TIL around 80% of a badger’s diet is made up of earthworms – they can eat hundreds of them in a single night – but they also eat slugs and other invertebrates along with apples, pears, elderberries and plums. When earthworms are scarce, badgers will eat small mammals like voles, hedgehogs & rabbits.
o65R TIL that gut bacteria could very well be manipulating our minds to cause cravings for certain foods they need in order to stay fit– such as lipids and sugars.
4paX TIL in 1917, staged photos that two little girls had taken of themselves w/ cardboard-cut-outs of magical fairies and gnomes were able to convince ‘Sherlock Holmes’ author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that he had discovered conclusive evidence for the supernatural.
VMZDQ TIL the only female Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, was a Harvard graduate and served as PM from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. After losing the election in 1997 she went into self-exile in Dubai. She returned to Pakistan in 2007 to run again but was assassinated during a rally.
RmP4 TIL that as an April fools prank Hot Wheels made wonder woman’s invisible jet, it was nothing more than an empty Hot Wheels packet. However, there was so much demand for it they made it into a ‘real’ product.