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TIL that firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground in 2010 because the homeowner hadn’t paid a $75 fee.

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ZkPo TIL that for her role of Amy in Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike gained and lost 13 lbs 3 times to play the character at different times in her life. She consumed hamburgers & malts to gain the weight & exercised with a professional boxer for up to 4 hours a day & ran 5 miles (in 42 minutes) to lose weight
o0lL TIL a man survived 3 days in an air pocket after his ship sunk in 100 foot waters, and was rescued by a diving team searching for bodies.
KYOLG TIL that Cambridge University classified a dog as a cat to get around its canine ban on campus
vZER TIL that the disclaimer “No animals were harmed during the making of this film” can be put on movies, even if animals died during the production, as long as cameras weren’t rolling at the time.
kOgvg TIL that some male Black Widow spiders have discovered a way to mate with juvenile females by using their fangs to “unseal” the genitals. This protects the male from being cannibalized.