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TIL that Summer was considered a bad time to release a movie in the theater because of low sales until Steven Spielberg’s JAWS.

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16xlO TIL western actor Jack Elam, known for his damaged eye, lost the use of that eye at a Boy Scout meeting at age 11 when another scout stabbed him with a pencil.
ANNbo TIL of Paparokades. A rock band formed by a group of Greek priests in the mid 90s in order to boost tourism to their monastery.
8e1DP TIL Bees In order to communicate what they've found and where it is, they dance: 'round dances' and 'waggle dances'. The 'round dance' signals to their nest-mates that there is a lucrative pollen area nearby. The 'waggle dance' tells them exactly where it is and how far to go.
vPR44 TIL over 2000 men had monkey testicles transplanted in them to halt or reverse their aging.
xVJab TIL that 70,000 years ago a red dwarf named Scholz’s Star and it’s brown dwarf companion passed through the Oort Cloud and came less than a light year from earth.