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TIL Wild Rodents Will Run on Mouse Wheels if You Leave Them in the Woods

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69Lw TIL Baileys uses 10% of Ireland’s annual cream production (X-post from r/ireland)
rdpy TIL that while filming Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick tricked George C. Scott into acting more ridiculously than Scott wanted. He convinced Scott to do over the top practice takes, saying they’d never be used, to warm up. Kubrick used these takes and Scott swore never to work with Kubrick again.
GaME TIL there’s a waterfall where nobody knows where the water goes. Minnesota’s Devil’s Kettle Falls dumps into a giant pothole with no seeable exit. Researchers have poured dye, ping-pong balls, even logs into it, then watched the lake for any sign of them. So far, none have ever been found.
D1kgJ TIL White claw has Canadian origins
rRdBM TIL in 1918 Russia, the Romanov family were brutally executed (with an even more disturbing burial). The Romanov children survived the initial spray of bullets and attack with bayonets because their clothes were lined with more about 1.3kg diamonds and gemstones each, as an improvised armour.