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TIL that chiggers don't actually burrow under your skin, but instead drink your liquified skin through a straw they make out of dead skin cells.

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raNM TIL that the shabby coat worn by The Great and Powerful Oz in The Wizard of Oz was found in a thrift store and later discovered to have belonged to L Frank Baum, author of the original Oz book.
GAEL7 TIL that the earliest sunset and the latest sunrise aren't both directly at or around the winter solstice. They are about 20-30 days away from each other (Depending on the location)
Oj0g TIL on the show 30 Rock they were so committed to the quality of the “smash cuts” or cutaways that one in particular took 3 days to build the set for only 6 seconds of video
VMQG TIL During the 2002 Iraqi election, Saddam Hussein’s campaign song was Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.”
VMoL0 TIL that Samuel L. Jackson has been in over 2 films per year since 1987, more often than not, exceeding that number.