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TIL Bill Murray was arrested in 1971 for smuggling 9lbs of marijuana through O'Hare Int'l Airport

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9gRm TIL:When Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca in Star Wars) became a naturalized citizen of the US in 2005 he joked that he did not get a medal at this ceremony either (A jab at the ending of A New hope)
nWWNd TIL that there are 250 species of ants who are growing fungi. Some practice lower agriculture, harvesting implemented wild fungi, while others like the Leave Cutter Ants practice high agriculture, growing their own, fully domesticated fungi which are completely dependent on their ant farmers.
woYgE TIL about Níðhöggr, a dragon who gnaws at the root of the world tree, Yggdrasil. Níðhöggr's name refers to its role as a monster who chewed the corpses of the inhabitants of Náströnd: those guilty of murder, adultery, and oath-breaking.
R5Kg4 TIL since none of Francisco Goya's Black Paintings ever received titles by Goya himself, it is unknown if Saturn Devouring His Son really depicts Saturn/Cronus at all, and has been variously interpreted as an inversion of antisemitism or a depiction of chaos and nothingness
8aVQ4 TIL that Dragonflies are older than dinosaurs and used to have a wingspan of 2.5 feet