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TIL Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers is the voice actor for Donnie Thornberry from The Wild Thornberry

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XymX TIL that during a speech to senators intended to convince them that the dust bowl epidemic was a real issue, a massive dust cloud enveloped Washington DC, blackening the windows of the hearing and caking the room with dust. The Soil Conservation Act was passed later that year.
d85er TIL: The inspiration for Gandalf's saying in The Lord of the Rings, "You shall not pass!" could come from a French saying in WWI "Ils ne passeront pas!". JRR Tolkien was a WWI veteran and had participated in the Battle of the Somme.
7An7 TIL Goldman Sachs horde 25% of the World’s Aluminium then manipulate the price by delaying delivery to companies by 16 months, increasing the price of it, making them a lot of money and potentially costing consumers $5 Billion over 3 years.
lo951 A tiger at the Bronx Zoo tested positive for the coronavirus.
69exJ TIL Pandas don’t breed well in captivity because both male and female giant pandas have to be interested in each other in order to mate