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TIL In Jurassic park (1993), the insect trapped in amber and which made the cloning of dinosaur possible was actually elephant mosquito. It's the only mosquito that doesn't suck blood, so cloning wasn't actually possible.

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Z86lG TIL there is a blood sport known as Spider Fighting, where two spiders are placed on opposite ends of a stick and pushed towards the middle to fight one another. In 2002, inmates in a Florida prison got into a fight resulting in life threatening injuries over the theft of a pet fighting spider.
XvAQ TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman had been sober for 23 years until he accepted an alcoholic beverage to celebrate the completion of The Master. This resulted in relapse, after which he started to use prescription medication. the following year he was using heroin.
b9DM7 TIL Hitler’s Private Train Was Named ‘Amerika’
mxWKx TIL a Washington detective forged letters sent to the presiding judge to get a better sentence
wxO6 TIL that Jeff Daniels only earned $50K for Dumb and Dumber compared to Jim Carrey’s $7Mil.