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TIL Stephen King has almost no memory of writing Cujo because of problems he had at the time with cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, Robitussin and mouthwash

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Oww1 TIL White tigers are not an endangered species that need to be saved, but are the result of double recessive traits, and are severely inbred to produce more white tigers, resulting in health problems.
b6vKQ TIL of the 1985 HBO/CBC mockumentary "The Canadian Conspiracy," about a plot by the Canadian government to subvert the US by infiltrating Hollywood with Canadian stars. Leslie Nielsen and his brother Erik, who was the real life Deputy PM of Canada at the time, are central to the film's plot.
kOx0m TIL that cranberry sauce cans always have the label on 'upside-down' so that it will be stocked on shelves in the correct orientation, in order to preserve an air bubble in the can that makes it possible to get it out in one piece without having to open both ends.
E1ODp TIL in 1848, Edgar Allen Poe wrote "Eureka" which envisaged The Big Bang, Black Holes, The Big Crunch and the first plausible solution to the Olbers Paradox. This was 100+ years before any of those were accepted scientific facts and Einstein would later call it "a beautiful achievement".
w7lE TIL that Hydras, tiny freshwater animals, have to rip their own skin apart just to open their mouth