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TIL Oprah became co-anchor of the evening news in Nashville at only 19 years old; success happened for her 'just like that'

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e0Pjn TIL in mizoram (India) every 50 years there is a phenomenon called 'rat bloom' where rat population explodes due to blooming of Mautam bamboos
69g0J TIL artist Salvador Dali illustrated a 1969 edition of Alice in Wonderland, with only 2,700 copies printed. It included twelve illustrations and a front-cover etching signed by Dali himself. Signatures of Dali can be spotted throughout, such as the melting clock found at the Mad Tea Party.
OrrX TIL: The Lord of the Rings Director, Peter Jackson, orchestrated 20,000 cricket fans during a game’s inning breaks in order to produce the sound of the Uruk-hai army in The Two Towers.
vP61r TIL that heroin is used routinely used in clinical practice in the UK and that this is something unique to the UK.
oAJo TIL Easy-E’s last public statement before dying of AIDS: “A few times I used Jimmy-Hats, but most of the times, I did it raw, and I ain’t gay.”