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TIL that Elián González, famous for the the international custody battle over him as a child, is now a politician in Cuba

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oy8r TIL the 300 different NPCs in GTA San Andreas are voiced with as much as 60,000 possible lines, making it almost impossible for any one player to have “heard” the full game audio.
jyvE TIL Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson were college room mates and staged a break-in of their own apartment to convince their landlord to fix the windows. A private investigator eventually tracked them down.
D1MmV TIL that the reason that Australia is formally named "The Commonwealth of Australia" is that the framers who wrote the Australian Constitution were obsessed with a book called "The American Commonwealth" that described American democracy in the 1870's. They give it the same "reverence as the Bible".
6bYJ TIL there is only one species of warm-blooded fish on Earth - the opah (Lampris guttatus)
velK TIL: That A Man Renovating His Home In 1963 He Discovered A Tunnel… To A Massive Underground City.