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TIL THE FOUNDER OF MATCH.COM LOST HIS GIRLFRIEND TO SOMEONE ON MATCH.COM

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VMv7D TIL that the first color 3-D feature film from a major studio was House of Wax in 1953, which was directed by Andre DeToth, who only had one eye
kOZw7 TIL: The tiny island of Ōkunoshima in Japan (otherwise known as Usagi Jima or "Bunny Island"), previously the WWII manufacturing site for thousands of tons of poison gas, is now home to hundreds of feral rabbits and nobody is quite sure where they came from.
vPjw8 TIL that Dave Coulier, the actor who played Joey Gladstone on “Full House,” has claimed to be the subject of Alanis Morissette’s hit song “You Oughta Know.” Bob Saget claimed to have been present at the dinner Alanis mentions in the song.
N7y86 TIL that a European fungus, accidentally spread to North America in 2006, has caused Bat populations across the US and Canada to plummet by over 90%. Formerly very common bat species now face extinction, having already almost entirely disappeared over the Northeastern US and Eastern Canada
xVG0b TIL that Baltimore has a higher murder rate than Honduras or El Salvador, and 10% of the population is addicted to heroin