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TIL Shia Lebeouf directed an ultra explicit music video for Marilyn Manson that was heavily inspired by the Holy Mountain.

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OoMvX TIL Zebras are black with white stripes. It was previously believed that zebras were white animals with black stripes, since some zebras have white underbellies. Embryological evidence, however, shows that the animal's background color is black and the white stripes and bellies are additions.
DevY TIL when Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring” premiered in 1913 Paris, the audience was so shocked that loud derisive laughter and jeers forced the performance to stop. Pandemonium ensued when people in the audience began fighting and throwing things at the orchestra.
v1EQx TIL if a cow eats the white snakeroot plant its milk becomes poisonous. The "milk sickness" that comes from drinking it killed thousands of people in the 19th century US.
KYLoG TIL The Offspring's Dexter Holland is a high school valedictorian, has a PhD in molecular biology from USC, has a pilot's licence and flew solo around the world in 10 days.
DQE0D TIL orcas can get dehydrated