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TIL that during the filming of Planet Earth II, the filmmakers went out of their way to save the lost baby turtles despite the convention that, as Sir David Attenborough said, "If you’re a film cameraman you are trained, as it were, to be the observer, a non-participant"

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OgOe TIL that twin brothers separated at birth and reunited 39 yrs later lived almost parallel lives. Both were named James, both owned a dog named Toy, both had married twice; first to women named Linda and second to women named Betty. Both drove Chevys, smoked Salem cigarettes and drank Miller Lite.
Vr0Q TIL rapper Lil Dicky made the music video for ’$ave Dat Money’ a song about saving money by asking house owners, a yatch owner and a car dealership if he could use their stuff for free. He also crashed a music video being shot by T-Pain and used it acting as if it were his own. Spending $0.
pyJZ TIL that the creators of the Curious George children’s books, Hans and Margret Rey, fled Paris on bikes only hours before it fell to the Nazi’s
PBWZ TIL in San Antonio, TX, lynchings used to be held in front of the San Fernando Cathedral until the priest cut the trees in which the hangings took place
b6pYj TIL that when the US Navy attempted the first flight from the US mainland to Hawaii, one of the two seaplanes ran out of fuel and landed in the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from the destination. The crew created crude sails from fabric wings, and sailed the plane to Hawaii.