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TIL: Despite being shown rolling in Western Films and in Desert Scenes, Tumbleweed is native to Russia and is an highly invasive species in the United States.

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E1RYx TIL the Herman Behr Mansion, now seen as one of the greatest, if not the greatest Romanesque Revival house in New York, was used as a brothel in the 1950s.
11xr TIL that laser tattoo removal is the process of using different wave lengths of light to break down the metallic ink particles to sizes small enough that they can be passed to the liver by your body’s white blood cells.
A4Yl TIL Michael Jackson got $2 for every Thriller album sold. Which was one of the highest royalty rates of that time.
LgXr TIL that Gandalf from Lord of the Rings is the same ‘being’ as the ancient Balrog demon that he fought.
YZmP TIL that a study from Australia found sniffer dogs produce false positives 80% of the time. “No test which has an 80 per cent error rate could be considered a reasonable basis on which to conduct an intrusive public search of a citizen going about their daily business.”