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TIL there is £80m worth of unclaimed premium bonds in the UK

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l4g7 TIL Victor Salva, the director of “Powder” and the “Jeepers Creepers” series (which has a 3rd coming soon), spent 15 months of a 3-year sentence for molesting the 12-year-old star of his film “Clownhouse”.
a6ro TIL Johnny Depp has played guitar for Marilyn Manson, Oasis, and Aerosmith.
ne8jd TIL teff, the staple food crop of Ethiopia, is a highly nutritious "superfood" like quinoa. After US and European health food trends created a huge demand for quinoa, prices skyrocketed in Bolivia, where it is a staple food. Fearing their own food shortage, Ethiopia banned the export of teff in 2006
b6684 Today I learned, a whale shark’s diet consists of very small prey, because it’s throat is about as narrow as a quarter.
wMM TIL that some wasps are smaller than single celled organisms. They miniaturize sucessfully by foregoing nuclei in their brains.