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TIL the film ‘Back to the Future’ provides the OED’s earliest recorded example of a colloquial sense of ‘hello’, used to imply (sometimes disbelievingly or sarcastically) that the person addressed is not paying attention, has not understood something, or has said something nonsensical or foolish.

yQbEV TIL honeybees sleep between five and eight hours a day, some bees hold each other's legs as they sleep. Colonies are divided into different sectors of work. There are cleaners, nurses, security guards, also collection bees whose sole job is to cache nectar in comb. Promotions happen as well.
VMleZ TIL White Castle became popular because of public reaction to Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”. To make sure that customers thought their food was clean, the buildings were painted completely white, the interiors were made of stainless steel, and the employees all wore spotless uniforms
PeOL TIL that Married With…Children was a reactionary TV show meant to contrast The Cosby Show; whereas The Cosbys were the first affluent black loving family on TV, the Bundy’s were the first who were all white, poor and hated each other. In fact, the working title was originally “Not The Cosbys”.
BgpVb TIL After the massive success of their original 1969 cartoon, “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!” Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. went down a rabbit hole and spent the next decade or so ripping off their own ‘Scooby formula’ to produce a TON of hysterically weird Scooby-doo clones.
W7oB4 TIL the number one song in the United States in 1958 was Italian