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TIL it is possible to form an addiction to carrots.

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1QL8 TIL that Kurt Russell was actually the director of Tombstone, but kept his name off the credits by hiring a “ghost director”, someone who would be credited but was not allowed to make any decisions for himself and was only allowed to do what Russel told him.
YB6d TIL that Jurassic Bark (Futurama) was originally about Fry’s mom, but the idea was scrapped for being too upsetting to the audience.
EyvX TIL scientists once tested the intelligence of beavers by playing the sound of running water on dry land. Eventually, the beavers started to cover the tape recorder with mud and branches.
NnJQ TIL that according to English law, the “Ancient Lights law” states that the owner of a building with windows that have received natural daylight for 20 years or more can forbid any construction or other obstruction that would deprive him/her of that illumination or “their portion of natural light”
N7ZbE TIL that the scene in IT: Chapter Two and in the novel where a group of teens assault a homosexual man and his partner before tossing one of them over a bridge to his death was actually based on a true story. Stephen King borrowed details from the real life event, and added Pennywise to it.