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TIL actress Sydney Sweeney was valedictorian of her highschool graduating class.

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DQ14Y TIL about "Anderson's Piano", a complex systems of wires and weights that has been protecting railways in the Scottish Highlands from rock falls for over 140 years.
kOvAm TIL that Donnie Dunagan, a retired United States Marine Corps drill instructor, managed to keep secret - throughout his entire career - that he was a voice actor in the Walt Disney's Bambi film, providing the voice of young Bambi.
v1Zkr TIL of an newly discovered organism called Lithoredo abatanica that eats stone and excretes sand. It is a shipworm, a group of burrowing animals known for eating woods and related to clams, but so different from known examples that it is both a new species and genus.
R7XW4 TIL New Zealand Council pays a wizard $16,000 a year to "provide acts of wizardry"
L7aQ TIL The Army pressured the filmmakers of Black Hawk Down to change the name of the war hero portrayed by Ewan McGregor because the real life soldier is serving a 30 year prison term for raping his six year old daughter