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TIL Anchorage, Alaska was so snow starved this year they actually had to import 7 train cars full of snow for the starting section of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

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d8ODj TIL that "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" by the Spin Doctors was about Chris Barron's stepmother. When he was a kid, she told him that he would grow up to be a janitor and would play his songs for the rats. The Spin Doctors' debut album sold 5 million copies with this song as the lead single.
mxoaR TIL Some zoos take donations of Christmas trees to provide enrichment for their animals. Lions are particularly fond of them.
W7dXA TIL that Peter Benchley regret writing "JAWS". He later devoted himself to ocean conservation.
Oorag TIL In 1942 some scientists theorized that detonating a nuclear bomb could produce such intense heat that it would cause a chain reaction which would set the atmosphere itself on fire, killing all life on Earth.
d86yr TIL Lion King creators and Sting had a completely different vision for Emperor's New Grooves and now I legit wish Disney would make a "remake" of "The Kingdom of the Sun"