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TIL toeprints are as unique as fingerprints

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ZRko TIL after George Orwell’s death, the CIA secretly bought the rights to 1984 and Animal Farm and clandestinely produced the first film version of 1984 and the critically acclaimed animated film version of Animal Farm.
GYnxN TIL that a New York bound flight from LA was forced to make an emergency landing when a woman would not stop singing Whitney Houston's "I will always love you" in midair
wXRo TIL there was an armed guard on site at Columbine on the day of that massacre.
vP8N8 TIL As a child, Alice Munro was appalled by the ending of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson and rewrote the ending to a happy one
9Y8x7 TIL Pill bugs, AKA (Roly polies, Potato bugs, etc), are not insects, but are closely related to shrimp and other crustaceans. They also have gills.