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TIL "Hit The Lights," the debut track on Metallica's first album Kill 'Em All, was actually written for James Hetfield's previous band 'Leather Charm' with his friend and guitarist, Hugh Tanner.

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j6Kbn TIL Hexagons are the best shape for bees to build their honeycombs, because they save wax and space. Unlike circles or triangles, hexagons fit together without gaps and have the largest area for the smallest perimeter. This means bees can store more honey with less wall material.
rQMy TIL in 1981, a tenant was evicted in Germany after spreading Surströmming (fermented Baltic Sea herrring) brine in the stairway. The landlord was taken to court, where he brought a can of Surströmming as evidence. After being opened, the court unanimously ruled in his favor because of the smell.
grWP8 TIL the albatross almost never flaps its wings while flying across the ocean. It uses "dynamic soaring" and "slope soaring" to carve through the air, gaining velocity from wind gradients. It can cover almost 1,000km (620 miles) every day, all without a single wing-flap
4kmN6 TIL that while filming the opening scene of 'Scream' where she was being hunted by the killer Ghostface, Drew Barrymore actually called 911 due to an error by the prop master. The police called back in the middle of filming after Barrymore had called them screaming into the phone multiple times.
BW7e TIL earlier this year, Star Wars was translated into Navajo, becoming the first major motion picture to be translated into any Native American language.