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TIL Lynda Carter (aka Wonder Woman) wrote and sang original music for Fallout 4.

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7g6p TIL That Mel Brooks witnessed Sid Caesar knocking down a horse with one punch, and this event inspired the scene in ‘Blazing Saddles.’
e0d0k TIL Trees communicate with each other mainly through the use of underground networks made of fungi that grow around their roots. These networks are called mycorrhizal networks. Mycorrhizal networks connect individual plants (like trees) together into a communication network via their roots.
BaMK TIL Walt Disney received one full-size Oscar for Snow White—as well as seven miniature ones
KON5R TIL to just be allowed to try out for the US Olympic team for running the marathon, you have to run a marathon in under 2 hours and 19 minutes. That is the same thing as running 26 miles where each mile is done in around 5 minutes and 18 seconds.
MeKx8 TIL that the fruit, orange, was named before the color, which was commonly referred to as “yellow-red.” Hence why people with orange hair are called “redheads” and not “orangeheads.”