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TIL Alaska has a rainforest, and its the largest one in the United States.

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Lkkm9 TIL in January 2011, a homemade catapult was discovered that was used to smuggle marijuana into the United States from Mexico. The machine was found 20 feet from the border fence with 4.4 pounds (2.0 kg) bales of cannabis ready to launch.
kOaKe TIL that the ruins of Pompeii contained ancient graffiti with your mom jokes and phrases like: "Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!"
ne697 TIL that in the 1940s, actress Joan Hickson appeared in an Agatha Christie play, following which the author sent her a note reading “I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple. 41 years later, Hickson was cast as Miss Marple in a BBC series of Marple adaptations.
4Pab TIL in 2000, when the cast of “Friends” wouldn’t come down from their $1,050,000/episode salary demands, NBC produced promos saying “You’ve loved them for seven years, see how it all ends with the series finale of Friends this Thursday”. The cast agreed to lower salaries.
ne8YP TIL that the iconic photo of a milkman in the Blitz is a fake