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TIL that in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Sybok is searching for Sha Ka Ree, a place of ultimate knowledge. The name Sha Ka Ree was a word play on "Sean Connery", whom the producers wanted to play Sybok.

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5YrGk TIL Honeybees can be trained to locate landmines due to their acute sense of smell. Croatian scientists mixed a sugar solution with a small amount of TNT — and after about five minutes of hunting for this doped sugar solution, the honeybees are trained to flock to the smell of TNT.
m1X6v TIL a pregnant belly can explode.
Vkn0 TIL Robert Downey Jr. buried the clothes that he wore in 1987’s Less Than Zero in the backyard of his house in a symbolic attempt to bury his decadent 1980s Brat Pack image and begin a new phase of his life and career after filming Chaplin.
yVyQa TIL that the 1988 film “Willow” featured a two-headed dragon called an Eborsisk, meant to be a reference to film critics Siskel and Ebert. Siskel and Ebert gave the film two thumbs down.
8wbZ TIL that Dashrath Manjhi from India worked day and night for 22 years to cut through a mountain to create a path from his village to a local hospital.He reduced the distance from 75 km to 1 km .