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TIL there’s a massive Burmese Python invasion underway in the Everglades and they’ve been steadily heading north for years

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bQv0 TIL While on tour with Motley Crew in 1984, Ozzy Osbourne asked Nikki Sixx for a line of cocaine. After being told there was none, Ozzy grabbed a straw, and snorted ants. Nikki confessed: “From that moment on. We knew there was always someone who was sicker and more disgusting than we were.”
v1mjB TIL that in 1971, the original tapes for Monty Python were almost erased and destroyed by the BBC. This was intended as a cost saving measure to reuse the tapes. Terry Gilliam bought them all and saved them.
Jonj TIL when Nicolas Cage was sleeping at his home, he was awoken by a presence. Cage awoke to find a naked man before his eyes, eating a fudgesicle and wearing his jacket. “It sounds funny” Cage said, “but it was horrifying”. Cage used “Verbal Judo” to get the man to leave. Cage now lives on an island.
rNwP4 TIL that Richard The Lionheart was so feared by his Muslim enemies by the time of the Battle of Jaffa, that they literally refused to attack him. This caused his opponent Saladin to leave the battlefield in anger.
78JBL TIL glass sponge could live as long as 15,000 years. Meaning oldest living glass sponges were around before human built any permanent structure on Earth