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TIL there’s a growing group of people in and around Detriot, MI who have taken it upon themselves to cut the grass at otherwise neglected public parks in the city using their own equipment. They’re called ‘The Mower Gang’ - check them out!

yQxdV TIL that Yellow River (Huang He) in China had shifted its course in 1855 when the river breaches its northern levees, causing the river mouth to be shifted hundreds of kilometres, from Yellow Sea south of Shandong Peninsula, to Bohai Sea, north of Shandong Peninsula.
XEMWQ TIL Phil Collins is an honorary member of the Hip-Hop group, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony due to the international success of their single, “Home”, on which Collins is featured. Collin’s moniker for the group is “Chrome Bone”.
JY48Q TIL that Boris Pasternak (the author or Doctor Zhivago) was almost killed in the great purge, 20 years before he wrote his famous novel. He was only saved at the last moment when Stalin himself crossed his name off the list with the note "leave that fool alone".
O794 TIL that Beelzebufo, aka the Frog From Hell, is the largest known frog species to have ever lived. Its diet may have included juvenile dinosaurs.
jROX TIL In 1969, the Woodstock concert was filmed for a documentary by a group of recent graduates from the NYU film school. A 26-year-old assistant director watched the show from a raised platform, never able to get away for food or to use the bathroom for three days. He was Martin Scorcese.