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TIL Stan Lee is the highest box-office grossing actor, in any role, of all time at $30,601,574,433 across 50 films

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w6y7 TIL Maleo lay their eggs underground near active volcanoes. Some say it’s a demon bird that escaped the fiery pits of hell itself.It even has a horn on its head and its chicks can fly the second they hatch from their eggs.
JklQ TIL before the 1900’s, it was theorised that birds slept at the bottom of lakes or migrated to the moon for the winter.
bVOQ TIL that a study performed by the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Clemson University found that three to six instances of double-dipping “would transfer about 10,000 bacteria from the eater’s mouth to the remaining dip.” The study concluded that double-dipping should be curtailed.
n9Gr TIL that in the 1880s and 1890s, a camel roamed the Arizona desert for a decade with a corpse strapped to its back
NXgoQ TIL there's a lake in South Carolina called“Alcohol And Drug Abuse Lake”