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TIL in his will, businessman Cecil Rhodes (namesake of the Rhodes scholarship) left money for the creation of a secret society whose purpose was to bring the entire world under British rule

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vBlB TIL: There is a Blue’s Clues that teaches Lucid Dreaming
wLAdY TIL of Bear, a "koala detection dog". Wearing special boots to protect his paws from scorched ground, Bear sniffs out koala survivors of Australian bushfires. His previous owners couldn't handle him as he chewed furniture & walls out of boredom, but his need to work made him an ideal detection dog.
n6nr TIL that Marie Curie’s lab papers from the 1890’s are still radioactive. They are stored in lead-lined boxes and one must don protective gear to see them.
1a7vX TIL The Rocky Horror Picture Show has had the longest-running theatrical release in film history (Since 1975)
ZbRB TIL 10 days into the shoot for The Wizard of Oz, Buddy Ebsen suffered a reaction to the aluminum powder makeup he wore; the powder he breathed in daily as it was applied had coated his lungs. Ebsen was hospitalized in critical condition. He was later put in an iron lung.