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TIL there are 8 films in the 'Beethoven' (franchise)

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DQQeP TIL: that in Hawaii some wallaby escaped the zoo in 1916 and a population of feral wallaby continue living on Oahu even today.
meeO TIL a 4 year old boy ran away from home and become the lead of a wolf pack after he provided them with food. He lived with the wolves for 2 years, was caught by police, and later served in the Russian Army.
rRrPo TIL it costs just 55¢ to mail a letter to Little Diomede in the Bearing Strait (2 miles from Russia), the USPS’s costliest route at $300,000 per year. The 119 resident Eskimos rely on the USPS subsidizing the cost of the weekly helicopter runs delivering food and medication.
9Xg6 TIL There is a poem called “The Lost Generation” by Jonathan Reed that when read one way speaks negatively about a generation and when read backwards has the exact opposite effect.
vOQx TIL that in 1961 at Jackass Flats, Nevada, the United States successfully tested a nuclear aircraft engine that would hug the terrain at mach 3. During its flight to the target, the proposed unmanned bomber would have deafened, flattened, and irradiated our allies. The project was cancelled in 1964.