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TIL that Burmese pythons have overrun the Florida Everglades partly as a result of Hurricane Andrew destroying a breeding facility in 1992, which released hundreds of snakes.

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Wjy4 TIL that the FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of Borat due to numerous reports of a “Middle eastern man traveling the Midwest in an ice cream truck.”
kgXd TIL Bruce Dern is one of the few actors to have killed John Wayne on screen (The Cowboys.) He received some death threats from loyal fans, soon after.
9wk6 TIL Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg both were booked on AA flight 11 which crashed into the World Trade Center. Wahlberg decided last minute to fly to Toronto, and MacFarlane missed it by just 10 minutes due to a hangover.
7PJ7 TIL That the recession of the early 2000s and the 2008–2012 global recession wiped out all middle class income gains for the last 15 years.
mxmdo TIL the Bajau peoples of South East Asia are the first known humans that are genetically adapted to dive. Their bodies are genetically modified for diving, so much so that they can dive at around 200 ft deep for as long as 13 minutes.