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TIL Heineken spent $45 million on a 5 second placement of James Bond drinking a bottle on the beach. This paid for half of Skyfall's entire movie budget.

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N7BM TIL a Massachussets judge ordered a mentally ill woman to have an abortion and be sterilized against her wishes.
7dZL TIL Henry “Box” Brown successfully escaped slavery in 1849 by mailing himself in a wood crate from Virginia to the free state of Pennsylvania.
KOw16 TIL that Tupac's godmother, Assata Shakur, was a Black Panther, Black Liberation Army member, revolutionary and bank robber. She was convicted for the murder of a police officer, escaped prison, found asylum in Cuba, and is still alive with a 2 million dollar American bounty on her head.
dDAP8 TIL that the goofy "baby talk" most adults naturally use to talk to babies actually helps them develop language better than speaking them normally.
oByko TIL the panda ant (Euspinolia militaris), so-called because of its black and white alternating coloration, is actually a species of wasp found in the forests of Chile and Argentina. They are known to deliver a very painful sting when they attack. Females are wingless and males have wings.