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wLrY1 TIL during the last ice age icebergs were found as far south as Miami
e1VD TIL that the blue jay isn’t blue because of pigmentation, but because the structure of the feather interferes with light. Thus, if a feather is crushed, it no longer appears blue.
5Yw0n TIL that Jack Black's character in Nacho Libre is loosely based on Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez - a Catholic priest who became the luchador "Fray Tormenta" and used the earnings to support his orphanage.
xx5w TIL that the Gotham General Hospital blown up in the film, The Dark Knight, was an actual abandoned building in Chicago, IL that had housed the administration of what was once the world’s largest candy factory (Brach’s).
rNMex TIL James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake is named after a comedic Irish-American ballad called Finnegan's Wake, about a man who breaks his skull and is thought dead, but when whiskey is spilled on his body at his wake, comes back to life and joins the celebration