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TIL a Tremors TV show was canceled that would have starred Kevin Bacon

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Vj8Q TIL while filming The Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd saved Carrie Fisher by performing the Heimlich maneuver while she was choking on a Brussels sprout.
R7498 TIL the oldest living Alligator, "Muja" in the Belgrade Zoo, not only survived WW2 (where the Belgrade zoo was almost totally destroyed) but also the 1999 NATO bombings during the war in Serbia, 54 years later. He is estimated to be at least 80 years old. But there are no records of his DOB.
OorBX TIL South Carolina has the only tea plantation in North America
ne0Wd TIL North Korea participated in its first World Expo as Kim Jong-Il visited China in 2010, when the North Korean pavillion was featured at Expo Shanghai. Kim Jong Il's rare trip to China prompted speculation that he was seeking help to rescue his country's economy
newKb TIL that unlike knives and spoons which have been around since antiquity, forks only appeared in the Middle Ages. They did not see common use for centuries, with records of British sailors ars recently as 1897 refusing to use forks as they considered them effeminate and unmanly.