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TIL Fern Gully is a real place in NSW Australia

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v14Ax TIL Buddy, the golden retriever that played the original Air Bud, is the same dog that played Comet on Full House. In 1989, his owner originally found him as a stray in the Sierra Nevada. He took Buddy in and trained him to play basketball, baseball, football, soccer, and hockey.
j6Pwv TIL Wonder Woman, & her Golden Lasso of Truth, was created by one of the inventors of the lie detector test and based her on his wife, and their polyamorous lover.
ZMpG TIL that a wrist watch was edited out from famous “Raising a flag over the Reichstag” photo, because the flag raising soldier had at least 2 watches
Zm1R TIL in 1998, Serena and Venus Williams said they could beat any man ranked 200th or worse in a game of tennis. Karsten Braasch, ranked 203th, accepted their challenge and easily beat them, 6-1, 6-2.
E1JEX TIL that King Tutankhamun (14th Century BC Pharaoh) was entombed with a dagger of "extraterrestrial origin." Advanced spectrometry tests strongly suggest the iron, nickel, and cobalt contained in the blade are from a meteorite that crashed near the the Kharga Oasis about 200 km west of the Nile.