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TIL that Bill Murray considers Groundhog Day the movie he was born to make and probably the best work that he has done. Before that movie he was seen largely as a clown. After it, he was a complex actor with range.

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X0AN8 TIL the population of vultures in South Asia has decreased by 99.95% since the 1990s. Researchers discovered the culprit to be an anti-inflammatory drug, Diclofenac, which was being commonly administered to livestock. This represents the sharpest rate of decline of any animal known to man.
YpgEA TIL of a farm in South Australia that is solar-powered and uses no fresh water. Opened in 2010, the world-first farm uses desalinated water and sunlight to produce around 15,000 tonnes of tomatoes a year.
8P7b TIL Of a white woman murdered by the KKK for driving black protesters home and then the FBI disparaged her name to cover up involvement of one of its informants.
7K9x TIL that by coincidence the first British soldier to be killed in WW1 was buried a few feet from the last British soldier to be killed in WW1 in a war cemetery in Belgium.
8DEP TIL that The New York Times Best Seller list is legally an editorial work. They have no obligation to make it reflect actual sales, and third-parties can be sued for copying the list without permission.