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TIL Elijah Wood voiced Spyro in The Legend of Spyro game series

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d86Md TIL That other countries don't know about Australia's obsession for the 1973 Ike and Tina Turner song Nutbush City Limits it's so popular that there is a national dance that every student is forced to learn at school
WkAKo TIL: Up until 1972, tennis balls used to be black and white, and were changed to their neon color today because people had trouble seeing them on television.
nep47 TIL Vancouver Island in BC is 12,000 square miles in size. For comparison the entire state of Connecticut is 5,543 sq miles.
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