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TIL “Where the Wild Things Are” was originally going to be “Where the Wild Horses Are” until Maurice Sendak started working on it and discovered he couldn’t draw horses

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QN9xE TIL In Albertville, French Alps, cheese generates electricity. Using whey from beaufort cheese production, a plant produces biogas, powering a turbine that generates 2.8 million kilowatt-hours per year, enough for 1,500 people.
4ZdR TIL - The Thing (2011 prequel) was originally going to have practical effects for the Thing, almost all of which were replaced due to studio interference as being “too 80s”
LkELv TIL In May 2016, a swarm of 20,000 bees followed a grandma's car for two days as their queen was stuck inside
rNA70 TIL a 1993 clan feud between 2 villages in China's Hunan province turned into all out warfare as the villagers armed themselves with homemade guns, dynamite and even cannons to settle old scores. They even constructed trenches and fortifications. After 34 hours, the police quashed the fighting.
LkYKV TIL over Newgrange, a prehistoric tomb in Ireland. It is pitch dark in the tomb the whole year, except for 15 min around Dec 21, when sunlight illuminates the niche in the front.