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TIL Warren Beatty and Shirley MaClain are brother-sister

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Z8gNY TIL a fossilised tooth of an extinct species of platypus was found in Queensland. Based on the tooth's size, researchers estimate the platypus would have been about twice as large as today's platypus & dubbed it "platypus-zilla".
EX9o TIL: Actor Jon Hamm taught future co-actress Ellie Kemper, when she was in the eighth grade.
JGDk TIL the Columbian army had a pop singer record a song with Morse Code hidden in the chorus so their soldiers in FARC rebel camps would know to expect a rescue attempt. They knew the rebels listened to a particular radio station and they had the DJ play it repeatedly
OGQl7 TIL Pepsi lost a $1.26 billion judgement against Charles Joyce and James Voigt after they said the company had created Aquafina by stealing their idea to sell purified bottled water. This was then vacated after Pepsi lost the paperwork to the lawsuit.
Z8Nmp TIL: There are actually very few countries in the world that have no snakes