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TIL Popcorn has more protein than any other cereal grain. It also has more iron than eggs or roast beef. It has more fiber than pretzels or potato chips.

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16rV4 TIL in 2008, a panda at a zoo in southern China attacked a man who wanted a cuddle. “Yangyang was so cute and I just wanted to cuddle him,” Liu was quoted as saying from his hospital bed.
QkKL TIL Dune the movie was initially set to star Salvador Dali, Orson Wells, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Alain Delon and Mick Jagger with art by H.R. Giger, a soundtrack from Pink Floyd and David Jodorowski as director.It would have been 14 hours long.
vPY97 TIL about the coolest animal in the world, the Argentine Lake Duck. Being able to fly, swim, and walk on land already makes most ducks pretty cool but this guy is dragging around a 16 inch penis that they use to lasso potential mates!
KEPG TIL - Freddy Mercury was so ill with AIDS when he recorded “The Show Must Go On” that Brian May didn’t think he could do it. Mercury slammed some vodka, said “I’ll fucking do it, darling” and killed it in one take.
Ee6w TIL Alex the Grey Parrot had a vocabulary of over 100 words and could distinguish seven colors and five shapes. He once asked what color he was, making him the first and only non-human animal to ever ask an existential question.