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TIL James Cameron would use a nail gun to nail the film crew’s cell phones to a wall in retaliation for unwanted ringing during the production of Avatar.

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Z8plB TIL Aseeda is a high-energy food made from millet or cassava eaten at most meals in Darfur where ongoing genocide has had a devastating effect on food and agriculture. Aseeda is often eaten with a stew or curry containing okra
EWod TIL of the Holodomor, “Extermination by hunger”, a man-made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine
QJ81E TIL that the entomologist Justin O. Schmidt created the ''Schmidt sting pain index''. This scale rates the pain from stings of ants, wasps and bees. While getting stung by a warrior wasp, he told to himself: ''Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?''.
b6yAQ TIL ancient Persians would debate important matters while both drunk and sober. If a decision was approved in both states, the decision would be held. If not, it would be dismissed.
grdR9 TIL the wrecked S. S. Minnow from Gilligan's Island was named after FCC Chairman Newton Minnow, who called television "a vast wasteland".