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TIL Glock, known for their firearms, also has a passion for horse breeding

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Yg6x TIL that Wikipedia is about as accurate as Encyclopaedia Britannica.
kdL1 TIL that the ruins of a 2,300-year-old Mayan Temple in Belize were destroyed by contractors who wanted to use the bricks for gravel to build a road.
KeN6 TIL Jules Verne wrote the novel “Paris in the Twentieth Century” back in 1863 and described a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, cities of elevator-equipped, gas-fuelled cars, subways, and a worldwide communications network.
oVBK TIL The Smashing Pumpkins donated 100% of ticket sales for the ‘Adore’ tour in 1998 to local charities for each show, totaling $2.8 million
oBbpR TIL Scrat from Ice Age(2002) was not based on a known mammal. However in 2011 fossilized remains were found in Argentina resembling Scrat.