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TIL… that on Saturn and Jupiter it literally rains diamonds
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TIL there is an island called Disappointment Island. It's uninhabited, but home to over 65,000 pairs of white-capped albatross. In 1868, a steel tanker crashed there and 68 people died, while the remaining 15 waited 18 months to be rescued. In 1907, another ship crashed there and 12 men drowned.
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TIL the 2nd highest grossing movie in Japan in the 1980s after E.T. was a $100,000 film called Cannibal Holocaust, which was so violent the director was arrested & charged with making a snuff movie. Although now viewed as one of the top horror movie of all time, it is still banned in many countries.
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TIL - Mayonnaise is commonly used topically in hospitals to remove tar from burn victims’ skin
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TIL "The Bare Necessities" From Disney's animated movie "The Jungle Book" got nominated for Best Original Song At the 1967 Oscars.
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TIL of Maria Sibylla Merian, the naturalist who discovered the life cycle of butterflies and insects, painted them in breathtakingly accurate watercolors, and braved the jungles of Africa with her daughter to greatly advance the science of entomology.