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TIL Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson comes from a wide family of American Samoan professional wrestlers called the Anoa'i.

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Y7LKP TIL Ambergris – sometimes referred to as “whale vomit” - is a product of the sperm whale. 1.5kg is worth approximately $71,000
RAww TIL that there is a scuba club in Muff, England called the Muff Diving Club.
mx7Mx TIL about the extinct Antarctic wolf, which was the only land mammal native to the Falkland Islands and was so tame that "it was possible to lure the animal with a chunk of meat held in one hand, and kill it with a knife held in the other"
x0Qw TIL after the Make-A-Wish organization offered to fulfill a 6-year-old girl’s request for a playhouse to be built at her home, the Home Owner’s Association where the girl lived refused to allow the construction. Only after a world-wide outpouring of support for the girl’s request did the HOA relent
kQbE TIL that in 2002 the Warner Brothers considered making a live-action Johnny Bravo movie, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson staring as Johnny Bravo