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TIL Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’ movie caused shawarma sales to SKYROCKET nationwide

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xMvB TIL the author of Goodnight Moon left her considerable fortune to a 9-year-old boy, who has squandered nearly all of it.
DwWp TIL that before he became emperor, it was predicted that Roman emperor Caligula had “no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae” After becoming emperor he built a 2 mile long bridge across the bay and proceeded to ride his horse across it.
w1Q8 TIL That “Something” by the Beatles, and “Layla” by Eric Clapton are both about the same woman.
0wbV1 TIL that Ichneumon wasps lay their eggs inside trees where they detect formerly laid and evolved wood wasp larvae. They paralize the other larvae through poison and then lay their single egg on top of it. Scientists are not sure how they find their victims through centimenters of solid tree bark
VBwnk TIL that it took a month for Ernő Rubik to solve a wooden block prototype of the Rubik's Cube