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TIL That the Philippines has the largest endemic wild pig species in the Genus Sus

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oBVbK TIL that Wes Craven placed a torn poster of Jaws in the background of The Hills Have Eyes to communicate to the audience that he believed his movie was much scarier. Later, Sam Raimi places a torn poster of The Hills Have Eyes in The Evil Dead to communicate the same message towards Craven
OEDe TIL Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
OdL TIL Japan and Kenya have a more favorable opinion of the United States than the United States does
1lmW TIL that since some early spellcheckers didn’t have the word “cooperation” without the hyphen, there are various documents online from NATO, the EU, the UN, and other international orgs that use the word Cupertino instead. “The Cupertino with our Italian comrades proved to be very fruitful”
V6LG TIL in 2008 Tropicana changed its logo from an orange with a straw in it to a glass of orange juice. Their sales dropped 20% in one month so they went back to the original.