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TIL the film “Demolition Man” was released in two different editions. The U.S. Release which featured Taco Bell as the prominent Fast Food franchise of the future, and the International Release which featured Pizza Hut instead.

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woGlo TIL that honeybees can recognize human faces. Conventional wisdom holds that the ability to recognize faces requires a complex mammalian brain. But studies of paper wasps and honeybees have shown that some small-brained insects can manage this feat, too.
e0lm6 TIL Between 1920 and 2000 the man hours required to produce a ton of steel reduced by a factor of 1000.
GAnDE TIL about Sunflower Syndrome. A poorly understood type of epilepsy, sufferers are drawn to seeking out and looking at bright light (including the sun). This results in a brief hand-waving gesture across the face, or eye-flickering seizure up to hundreds of times a day.
E057 TIL Waylon Jennings was originally going to be on Buddy Holly’s ill fated flight. He backed out and Holly stated “Well, I hope your ol’ bus freezes up.” Jennings replied with “Well, I hope your ol’ plane crashes,” haunting Jennings for the rest of his life.
Br8pK TIL John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, has two living grandchildren. John Tyler was 63 when his son Lyon was born (1853). Lyon was 71 when Lyon Jr. was born (1924) and 75 when Harrison was born (1928). They are both alive today.