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TIL that Terry Jones of Monty Python is credited with writing the movie “Labyrinth”, despite the script having been re-written several times

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wLvB8 TIL Stalin had a son who he hated and who was later captured by the nazis. The nazis thought they could use him as a bargaining chip to trade to his father Joseph in return for Nazi generals. In response, Stalin said, "I do not trade generals for soldiers" Stalin's son would later kill himself.
j0dQ TIL Native Americans have Three Sisters Soup from their Three Sisters Agriculture from growing squash, climbing beans and corn together. The corn grows up, the climbing beans grow up the stalks, and the squash grows across the ground, covering all the roots and protecting them.
vPYPR TIL that in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Sybok is searching for Sha Ka Ree, a place of ultimate knowledge. The name Sha Ka Ree was a word play on "Sean Connery", whom the producers wanted to play Sybok.
jaKa TIL that cigarette butts are the most littered item at the world, with an estimated 4.5 trillion littered annually. Each butt can take 5 to 400 years to completely break down.
neRad TIL Some people can smell ants and ant colonies and say they have a unique smell