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TIL the 2nd M in MGM is for Louis B. Mayer. He allegedly molested 16 year old Judy Garland, Dorthy from original Wizard of OZ movie.

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16e0W TIL a stray dog followed Dion Leonard, who was running in a week-long ultramarathon in the Gobi Desert, for 77 miles of the 155-mile race. At night the dog even started to join him in his tent. He named her Gobi, & after the race, he crowdfunded the £5K needed to bring her back to Scotland with him.
WDvA TIL a multi-national research team has created a model of a “Living and Breathing Supercomputer” that runs on the same substance that living things use as an energy source. The “biological computer” is fast, accurate, compact, and energy efficient.
kJZoB TIL circa 1667, Massachusetts Bay settlers had enacted laws to try to reduce blackbird populations and mitigate damage to corn. One law provided that each single man in a town must kill six of those birds and, as a punishment for not doing so, he could not marry until he had complied.
ne0OW TIL: In the movie "The Poseidon Adventure", the Theme Song "The Morning After" was sung by Renee Armand and lip-synced by actress Carol Lynley. Maureen McGovern recorded the better known 'after-film' hit.
R7Vra TIL There is no such thing as an "alpha" in a wolf pack. Wolf packs operate more like human families: there is no defined sense of rank, parents are in charge until the young grow up, younger wolves don't overthrow an "alpha" to become the new leader, and social dominance fights are situational