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TIL strawberries top the 'Dirty Dozen' list of fruits and vegetables with the most pesticides

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B8ey TIL The Little Shop of Horrors was reportedly the fastest film ever made. It was written in a single night, rehearsed in three days, and shot in two days and one night, all to finish by New Year’s 1960 when a new industry practice started to pay actors residual fees
woLoo TIL that A $500, $1000, $5000, and $10,000 bill exists and is still legal tender
70M TIL that the Ancient Olympic games were competed in the nude and were cancelled due to Christians viewing it as a Pagan festival
Lkp9Q TIL that In order to supply water to the parks of the Palace of Versailles, Louis XIV ordered the construction of the machine Marly to pump water from the Seine located 10 km from the castle with a drop of 150 meters. This machine, considered one of the most complex of its time worked for 133 years
78prb TIL the Rolling Stones were the first to record the Lennon–McCartney song I Wanna Be Your Man as their first top 20 single in the UK