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TIL M. Night Shyamalan wrote the 90’s hit “She’s All That”.
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TIL, when adjusted for inflation, Gone With The Wind grossed $$4,401,358,554.94 making it the highest grossing movie of all time.
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TIL Saint Valentine was also the patron saint of Beekeepers and Epilepsy
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TIL of the Nazino affair - the mass deportation of 6,000 "socially harmful" people to Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in May 1933. They were abandoned with only flour for food, and little in the way of tools, clothing, or shelter, and those who attempted to leave were killed by armed guards.
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TIL dragonfly wings actually kill bacteria. There is a variety of mechanisms for this to happen, but one of those is by literally ripping open the bacteria with sharp, nano-sized pillars that coat the wings.
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TIL in silkworm farms of 16th century Italy, delicate silkworm eggs were incubated by women who carried them in small bags next to their skin, sometimes between their breasts