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TIL a CIA plane crash-landed over Yucatan in Mexico with four tons of cocaine on board. Yes. Four tons.

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VMP40 TIL Walt Disney planned to produce "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" animated movie similar to his earlier film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", but his plan was crushed after MGM studios won the film rights to the popular book first.
9wJgm TIL - one of the top songs in 1972/3 was by Loudon Wainwright III, son of a WW2 correspondent, called “Dead Skunk” (in the middle of the road)
x6jeb TiL that aluminium drink cans are on average, recycled ever 60 days. Good work guys.
yVZ8v TIL that sharks do not produce sounds. Out of the 400-500 species, no organ capable of producing sound has ever been found.
KQZ6 TIL Father Damien, a Catholic Priest, volunteered to help an island leper colony, saying “I make myself a leper to be with the lepers.” There he turned shacks into painted houses, cultivated farms, and started schools. Doing so he contracted leprosy himself. He was canonized a saint in 2009.