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TIL a group of ferrets is called a 'business'.

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X4jX TIL that the ancient board game “Go” was being played at a tournament in Hiroshima in 1945, when the atomic bomb went off only 3 miles way. Though the building was damaged and people were injured, they finished the match later that same afternoon (white won)
R5eQQ TIL that Alfonso Cuarón, the director of "Prisoner of Azkaban" movie, asked the three main actors to write an essay about their characters, to get acquainted with them. Daniel Radcliffe(Harry Potter) wrote a page, Emma Watson(Hermione) wrote 10-12 pages, Rupert Grint(Ron) didn’t give in anything.
neEDb TIL Gold is an inert noble metal as it does not react with other elements. It is the most malleable and ductile of all known metals. An ounce of gold can be beaten into a sheet measuring 300 square feet or stretched into a gold thread 5 miles long.
RD1 TIL Doctor Seuss’s first book took 27 publisher rejections before it finally found a taker, Chicken Soup for the Soul was passed on by over 100, A Time to Kill by 26, and George Orwell was told Animal Farm would never sell because “it is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.”
gEdX TIL it takes at least eight bees all their life to make one single teaspoonful of honey