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TIL Pangolin is neither cheap nor delicious. It is incredibly expensive and tastes awful.

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BZJr TIL in the 1938 the Spanish created Abstract Art prison cells and used them to commit psychological torture.
QNR7L TIL that the novelization of Star Wars: A New Hope was actually published several months before the release of the film, rather than the other way around
PoNE TIL that there is a mushroom that is only found in two specific locations: Texas and Japan, 6800 miles/11000km apart.
kOJpB TIL the movie Top Gun had a production budget of only 15 million dollars
yQGG8 TIL about Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese-born actor who became a major Hollywood star in the early silent film period of the 1910's, and noted for his status as a sex symbol, with "his most rabid fan base [being] white women."