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TIL James Cameron DIDN'T quit truck driving to explore his artistic side, He drove trucks to fund it.

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M76eb TIL there are glaciers in tropical Indonesia.
rQR0 TIL The longest work of fiction ever written is three million words long and six times longer than War and Peace, as of July 2013. It is a Super Smash Bros. Brawl fanfic.
Ryra TIL that in 2005 Samantha Futerman played the role of a girl separated from her sister in the movie Memoirs of a Geisha. In 2013 Samantha was contacted by her own identical twin sister, Anaïs, who had discovered her on YouTube. Neither knew of each other because they had been separated at birth.
woGM1 TIL it takes 140 litres of water to produce 1 cup of coffee
oabK TIL that Catullus, an ancient Roman poet, wrote a poem criticizing those who considered his poems too racy, and that poem both began and ended with a line that translates to “I will sodomize you and face-fuck you.”