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TIL - When a Guinea Pig Hops, it’s called “Popcorning”

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D1a5D TIL in 332 BC when Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt they did not put up a fight against him, instead saw him as a liberator from the Persian empire, he was pronounced son of the deity Amun at the Oracle of Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert.
XEXr8 TIL Pablo Escobar, The Cocaine Kingpin, said that one of his first illegal enterprises was robbing tombstones from local graveyards, sanding down the names, and selling them to Panamanian smugglers.
ZLY4 TIL Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man & The Fly, he purposely left his name off out the advertisements so people didn’t think they were comedies.
Wpp4 TIL Carrie Fisher wore no underwear in Star Wars because George Lucas convinced her “there is no underwear in outerspace”
neQ7W TIL Agatha Christie once disappeared for 11 Days and no one (including her) apparently knows what happened.