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TIL Michael Caine once held Sean Connery’s coat while the James Bond star single-handedly beat up four men in a nightclub.

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DQ9MP TIL about "Cocaine Bear," a real black bear that accidentally consumed a duffel bag full of cocaine in 1985. The drugs were dropped from a plane by a drug smuggler, Andrew Thornton, who later died during a botched parachute jump. The bear ingested over 75 pounds of cocaine and died almost instantly
rNY54 TIL that Metallica has a scholarship program called Metallica Scholars that has provided $4.1 million in grants to community colleges to support career and technical education programs. \m/
4vNb TIL that during the 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks, Fox News decided to add a news slider that crawled at the bottom of the screen to give updates. It was so effective that other news channels began to implement it even to this day.
wbBo TIL of the ‘loneliest organism’ in the world. A single, lone cycad tree, the dominant tree during the dinosaur era, was discovered in Africa in 1895. They have yet to find a mate to pollinate it.
m1D5E TIL that ants are much more closely related to bees than wasps are