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TIL In 2005 canadians campaigned to ban comic sans

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8eRpb TIL there is a village in Indonesia that has been wiped out due to a mud volcano which humans started
nWvro TIL in the first Rocky movie, Burt Young was only 35 years old while playing the role of Paulie. 47 years later, he still acts in 2-3 movies a year
Erdp TIL the original Illuminati’s goals were “oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality” in otherwords a pretty awesome group of people.
VBNYG TIL that Dryococelus australis, a stick insect considered extinct since 1920, was rediscovered in 2001 in the only bush in Ball's pyramid–an uninhabited islet in the Pacific Ocean between Australia and New Zealand, and the tallest volcanic stack in the world.
7rveZ TIL that Dim, the rhinoceros beetle from A Bug's Life (1998), had no known reference in nature until the Megaceras briansaltini was discovered in 2007. This phenomena, of nature mimicking art, was coined the Dim Effect by its discoverer.