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TIL that IGN gave the movie “This is Spinal Tap” an 11.

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ADEal TIL in The silver fox domestication experiment, the tamest foxes were selected to be bred, generation after generation, to see what happened: they became very tame very fast, developed floppy ears and curly tails, and some got mottled coats, just like other domesticated animals.
kJAbB TIL Gunkanjima is an abandoned island near Nagasaki. Once densely populated with 5,000 residents on 0.072 km2, the island town was mainly a coal mine operation until 1974 when operations ceased. Typhoons have caused structures to slowly deteriorate, further emphasizing the atmosphere of abandonment
4Xwdg TIL The entire world's population could fit inside Los Angeles
Rbjw TIL Anderson cooper is the great-great-great-grandson of 19th century railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt
xpJg TIL that a white man has not run in the 100 meter finals of the Olympics since 1980.