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TIL Irrfan Khan was too poor to go buy a ticket to see the Jurassic Park movie. Years later he played a starring role in Jurassic World

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oRBaE TIL Giuseppe Morello was founder of one of the first crime families in the United States. Morello was originally from Corleone, Sicily and his crime family was notorious for disposing of victims by putting their dismembered remains in barrels, sometimes shipping the barrels to nonexistent addresses.
Oo76e TIL of Gunner, a stray Australian dog who, after being wounded in a WW2 air raid, could distinguish so accurately between the sounds of Allied and Japanese planes that he could give 20 mins warning before an air attack. He was taken in by the RAAF and given a role detecting air attacks on Darwin.
BP8r TIL That the Venus Flytrap is only native to one area of the world. That area; North and South Carolina.
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