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TIL: That Steven Seagal made a music album called “Songs from the Crystal Cave” that won a coveted endorsement from Conan O'Brian!

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Wk7ed In Tanzania, a non-profit organization called APOPO trains African giant pouched rats to save lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis.
pYB48 TIL that all Fruit Loops all share the same fruit-blend flavor.
GYAV1 Proving that it still has power, over the past few years, Mount St. Helens has had "a baby volcano growing in its crater," says Stephanie Grocke, a volcanologist at the Smithsonian Institution and a National Geographic explorer.
VBwK8 TIL of the "Aloha Spirit" law, Hawai'i Revised Statutes, Section 5-7.5: " 'Aloha Spirit' is the coordination of mind and heart within each person. It brings each person to the self. Each person must think and emote good feelings to others. In the contemplation and presence of the life force (hā)."
E1Oow TIL about Anthony Ervin, a swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, retired at 22, begun abusing drugs, at one moment being hardly able to raise from a sofa for days on end. In 2011 he got back into swimming, and at the 2016 Olympics became the oldest swimmer to win a gold medal.