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TIL the scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is “gorilla gorilla gorilla”

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JmJk TIL that Stevie Nicks, in 1979, wrote one of her best-known songs about the child she had conceived with Eagles frontman Don Henley in 1975; She named her Sara, terminated the pregnancy, and then wrote the song of the same name to the spirit of the baby.
6EJMQ TIL: The Blue Ringed Octopus is both venomous and poisonous thanks to the neurotoxin Tetrodotoxin
kJPWg TIL the woman who created the green bean casserole is in the Inventor's Hall of Fame
wLE8J TIL that the mostly-improvised film "Waiting For Guffman" took only 29 days to shoot but over 18 months to edit. The long editing process was due to the fact that over 90 hours of footage was filmed, which needed to be whittled down to 86 minutes.
4av5 TIL that Scientology isn’t legally considered a religion in all countries. Switzerland identifies it as a commercial enterprise, France and Chile as a cult, and Norway as a non-profit