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TIL hippos have very little subcutaneous fat. Their 2,000kgs body is mostly made up of muscles, and 6-centimeter thick skin

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6Ey1Y TIL about "the Beast", the US president's armored limo. It has a number of features to protect the president, including 8-inch doors, 5-inch bulletproof glass, Kevlar run-flat tires, fully-sealed pressured interior, and electrifying car door handles. It cost roughly US$1–1.5 million.
GbY7 TIL the Amazon Rainforest area originally had terrible farming soil, until indigenous people invented a “superdirt” which remains fertile for thousands of years, renews and propagates by itself, and may currently cover as much as 10% of the Amazon basin.
XED5D TIL that Lorenzo Music, the voice of Garfield, would volunteer at a suicide hotline. Callers would sometimes change their tone to remark, "Hey, you sound just like that cat on TV!".
nx07 TIL that One-Eyed Willie’s pirate ship in the Goonies was constructed without the kids allowed to see it, hoping to get a real reaction from the cast for the first take. But when they rolled and revealed it, the gang was so shocked and started cursing up a storm. The scene had to be re-shot.
9dDG TIL Péter Zwack, escaped the Communists in 1948, was granted US entry just because he had the Zwack recipe for Unicum, the National Shot of Hungary. After 40 yrs went back, bought the factory from the State, became Hungarian Ambassador to the US. The State owned factory had been using a fake recipe.