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TIL that the term “easter egg” originates from the the 1975 movie “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” when the cast had an Easter Egg hunt but most of the eggs went unfound. They can be seen throughout the film in various locations.

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lorv1 TIL of highway robbery. 50 k/31 miles of highway was stolen, with over 7000 concrete slabs dismantled and sold for private profit by an official in Russia's Komi region
M77xB TIL evidence of the world’s oldest forest, dating back 385 million years, has been discovered in an abandoned quarry in upstate New York, according to a new study published in Current Biology.
AJ7l TIL the Statement of Purpose of the National Organization for Women once had a section calling for the “reexamination of laws and mores governing marriage and divorce” with a focus on giving men more rights in the lives of their children.
BgdOk TIL that the longest recorded time a chicken has been observed flying continuously is 13 seconds, and the furthest recorded flight of a chicken has covered 301.5 feet.
bdg0 TIL the ‘sand mafia’ is a huge problem in India, illegally mining sand and causing permanent environmental damage.