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TIL about Dick Assman, a Canadian gas station employee whose name propelled him to celebrity status in North America for four months in 1995

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5YkxP TIL about Swineburne island, an abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York used during the 19th and 20th century as a quarantine for infected passengers
R7Wg7 TIL that John Fogarty was sued by Fantasy Records for copyright infringement because his song (the 1984 hit "The Old Man Down The Road") sounded too much like CCR's 1970's hit "Run Through The Jungle", a song that Fogarty wrote and produced.
DjVe TIL If it wasn’t for Jupiter’s gravitational pull, Earth would have been destroyed by meteors by now
X5gk TIL self-taught naturalist Ray Stanford shocked paleontologists by routinely finding hundreds of dinosaur prints in suburban Washington DC where only a handful had been discovered before. He has a unique ability to recognize patterns and abnormalities in rock. He also claims seeing UFOs in clouds.
WneX TIL that the Bermuda Land Snail was thought to have gone extinct in the 70s. In 2014, many were rediscovered in a Hamilton city alleyway. The snails had colonized the alley early on and the surrounding city shielded them from the threats that wiped out the rest of the species.