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TIL Wilson the Volleyball from Cast Away has its own IMDB page.

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X9mX TIL Houston spent 2.8 billion dollars expanding the freeway to 23 lanes only to slow traffic down by 30%
8488 TIL A pine tree planted in 2004 in memory of former Beatle George Harrison died after being infested by beetles.
ZmGp TIL Coca-Cola is 90% water. Diet Coke is 99% water.
jD4Q TIL that in 1987 a 16 year old girl went missing on a camping trip to search for Bigfoot in the Sierra Nevada. She was never seen again. The 43 year old man with her claimed she was taken by bigfoot, and avoided trial due to the lack of a body.
womY7 TIL that the New Mexico Fish and Game department introduced several dozen South African Oryx in the 70s for novel hunting opportunities. The Oryx is now invasive in New Mexico, and there are thousands of them in the wild imbalancing ecosystems there.