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TIL Kevin Bacon founded an organization that re-homes rescued factory farm pigs.

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XegQ TIL 2,000 year-old seeds were discovered in Israel around 1965 to be held in storage for the next 40 years. After they were planted, a tree that has been extinct for 1,800 years sprouted.
4XdjR TIL the sound effect in the opening line of the song Iron Man, "I am Iron Man", was made by having Ozzy Osbourne sing from behind a fan.
M7JEb TIL In 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missile submarines collided by chance in the Atlantic Ocean. They were moving so slowly that they couldn't have detected each other just a few feet apart.
OGkNY TIL that the biomass of domesticated poultry (mostly chickens) is about three times higher than all wild birds combined. About 65.8 billion chickens were consumed as meat in 2016.
kQoe TIL Arrested Development actor, David Cross, was arrested in 2012 for snorting cocaine in the White House.