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TIL that in California, they use prison labor to fight forest fires

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x6Xao TIL in the movie Arachnophobia, the largest spider was a bird-eating spider they named Big Bob, after Robert Zemekis. Big Bob was adopted by a crew member named Jamie Hyneman, who went on to host Mythbusters. The little ones were controlled using a hairdryer and lemon pledge spray.
R7LDw TIL Frankie Muniz doesn't remember filming Malcolm in the middle due to severe memory loss.
0w0KN TIL award winning film critic Roger Ebert created the Boulder Pledge. A commitment to never buy anything offer from spam email or to forward spam or chain emails.
rPNe TIL that the alien language featured in Futurama was completely deciphered by fans only a few hours after the pilot episode finished airing
j6pdR TIL the great mathematician Leonhard Euler once believed the Earth was falling into the sun "where it would necessarily be burnt."