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TIL the male equivalent of a ballerina is a ballerino

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9YxXG TIL Due to North Carolinian farmers switching from growing tobacco and cotton to growing soybeans and corn, Black Bears of the area are getting fat from all the extra food sources.
1err TIL that Ori, who was a Dwarf member of Thorin and Company from the Hobbit, was also in the Fellowship of the Ring. He is the corpse that Gandalf takes the Book of Mazarbul from in the Mines of Moria in Balin’s Tomb.
OMEg TIL the Trident Missile has the ability to fly in a GPS-denied environment by Star-Sighting navigation.
MB4B TIL that livestock farming generates over 18% of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions, where as all the world’s cars, trains, planes and boats account for a combined 13%.
9YolG TIL that David Vogel, then-president of production at Disney, was fired from his position for buying the rights to the script for Sixth Sense for $3M, because he bought it without permission.