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TIL that during the filming of "The African Queen" (1951) on location in Uganda, many of the cast and crew became ill. During the filming of a scene where Katharine Hepburn played an organ, the crew kept a bucket off camera so she could vomit into it between takes

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69LPZ TIL after a boy in the 1930s found what looked like a "great lump of coal", his family used it as a doorstop for a decade until his dad had "a little look at it." This led to the realization it was the world's largest black sapphire. After being faceted, the Black Star of Queensland is 733 carats.
BgVXx TIL that lots of kids are named Bluey. It was the 9,217 most popular baby girl name and 8,212 most popular baby boy name in 2023. It was also a somewhat popular name before the kids tv show Bluey began production in 2018.
v1lB7 TIL some ranchers around Yellowstone National Park are using old heritage breeds of cattle because those breeds are more maternal and defensive of their calves, so they are much more likely to deter predators like bears and wolves.
k79E TIL that Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom, is also the Queen of Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
KgY4 TIL: That Charles R Drew,The first African American to graduate Columbia medical school and a key scientist in the creation of the blood bank, Lost his job because he refused to segregate blood by the race of the donor