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TIL Salvador Dali owned a pet Ocelot named Babou

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VdYZ TIL that homework was a discouraged practice until the 1950s to stay ahead in the Cold War
jN8gN TIL a single type of MP3 player, the S1 one, was sold under dozens of different brand names, including counterfeits of iPod, Samsung and Sony trademarks, and with various case designs.
ABQw TIL Scientists once had a favorite curb in Hayward, CA. They studied the curb because it lay on the Hayward fault line & was being pulled apart each year. This evidence of Earth’s shifting plates was observed from the 1970s till 2016 when the city decided to fix the sidewalk & unknowingly ruined it
QJEpL TIL serial killers act similarly to bees. Serial killers commit crime near their home, but far enough to prevent arousing suspicion. Similarly, bees collect pollen near their hive, but far enough from predators. Scientists found algorithms from studying bee behaviour to catch felons
5V7G8 TIL in the 1970s hysteria over the arrival of killer bees in the United States created a genre of "killer bee movies". One of the most well-known movies was the 1978 film "The Swarm", directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Caine. It scored 9% at Rotten Tomatoes.