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pYW4Q TIL during a Batman reunion on The Late Show, Burt Ward (Robin) mentioned that they did’t get any money from the show after 1970
5rrk TIL that John Lennon once called an ‘emergency board meeting’ of the Beatles in order to inform his bandmates that he’d realized, while tripping on acid, that he was the second coming of Jesus.
1mZX TIL that eating lychees, especially unripe, can trigger a fatal brain swelling (encephalopathy) in malnourished children.
gNNW TIL that the current CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, was also the first female employee at Google, in 1999.
xD75 TIL: Plants produce capsaicin to discourage rodents from eating the fruit (and grinding the seeds in the process) but birds can’t detect the chemical and don’t destroy the seeds