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TIL in the 1940s the Idaho Fish and Game Dept relocated beavers into the wilderness by dropping them out of airplanes with parachutes

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KOPDG TIL: After the final Beatles tour of the USA in 1966, Paul McCartney disguised himself with a false moustache and drove around France to see what not being famous was like.
rRNY0 TIL the film Back to the Future is banned in China because it features time travel
N7RJE TIL the prosthetics in The Elephant Man (1980) were designed directly from body casts of Joseph Merrick (aka the Elephant Man) made in 1890 & preserved for 90 years in a hospital museum. The prosthetics were so acclaimed that audiences pressured The Oscars into creating the "Best Makeup" award
GZ84 TIL Mel Gibson’s ex walked away with more than $400,000,000 during their divorce and is entitled to half of every future check he receives for the rest of his life
mxMxE TIL there ARE bears in India. People always made jokes about Baloo in the Jungle book: "Why's there a random bear in the jungle?" B/c as is turns out, there are Sloth Bears native to about all of India.