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TIL an Island off Brazil is Estimated to have 1 Golden Lancerhead Viper Per Square Meter

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rBBo TIL that in the 1999 movie the Matrix, Neo’s passport expires on September 11, 2001.
m0gR TIL that Fly Agaric mushrooms, which look like Super Mario Bros. mushrooms, contain a psychoactive chemical that can cause micropsia/macropsia, aka the illusion that objects around you are larger or smaller than they actually are.
KOXdQ TIL A bank robber hired decoys on Craigslist and escaped down a creek on a Inner tube
78pRx TIL about the man who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge in football padding to impress his wife. She watched him die on impact and told the press, “it was the last thing he did, and it was a failure.”
JYyE4 TIL in The Italian Job (2003) the studio had to build custom electric Mini Coopers for the scenes in the LA subway because combustion engines would be too dangerous in the enclosed spaces.