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TIL Dan Aykroyd jokes that Slimer in “Ghostbusters” is the ghost of John Belushi

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Egoyo TIL In China, smuggling a Giant Panda carries at least a 10-year sentence and confiscation of property; under grave circumstances, life sentence or even death sentence together with a total confiscation of property shall be applied.
BgWlD TIL Biplanes were still winning victories in WWII (and not just naval torpedo bombers)
Yg8B TIL that the RGB color gamut used in electronics can not display all possible colors. Even if yellow is added, the device can still only display 87% of all colors that humans are able to perceive.
RQy1 TIL that William Wrigley, Jr. sold soaps in 1891, offering baking powder as incentive to buyers. The baking powder proved to be more popular, so he started selling it, offering gum as incentive. But the gum proved to be EVEN more popular, so he started selling them. In 1893, Juicy Fruit debuted.
PYRwG TIL Benedict Cumberbatch was kidnapped by armed robbers in South Africa in 2005