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VBYkm TIL of mad honey, the hallucinogenic product of certain asian honeybees that eat rhododendrons,
10pd TIL that Jeff Bridges spent over a decade trying to bring “The Giver” to the screen, and wanted his father Lloyd Bridges to play the title character. By the time production actually started, his father was dead and he was old enough to play the role himself.
vPwXL TIL legendary session bassist Leland Sklar put a switch on his bass that does nothing. He calls it the "producer switch" — when a producer asks for a different sound, he flips the switch (making sure the producer can see), and carries on. He says this placebo has saved him a lot of grief.
BVee TIL Otto von Bismarck once stated that when war came to Europe “it will be some damn fool thing in the Balkans that sets it off” thirty years before Franz Ferdinand was assassinated which kicked off the start of World War One.
697jm TIL the fully air conditioned Dallas Cowboys Stadium uses more electricity on game day than the entire country of Liberia (5.1 million pop). The stadium will be used in the 2026 FIFA world cup. Other air conditioned stadiums include Houston's NRG stadium and Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz stadium.