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TIL: In 2005, Leonard DiCaprio bought a private island off the coast of Belize with plans to build an eco-resort. In 2024, construction still has not begun.

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mxE4v TIL witches were never depicted with green skin before the 1939 Wizard of Oz film. Witches were commonly depicted as red or orange beforehand. The Wicked Witch of the West was not described as green in the book, and she was only made green in the film because it looked really good in technicolor.
oRWEE TIL of the Sul Ross Desk, an attraction outside the college town of Alpine, Texas that is a teachers desk left abandoned by a group of Sul Ross State students on top of a mountain in 1979.
BbOD TIL Old grazing animals die of starvation because their teeth wear down and they cannot eat
69vX8 TIL the Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at around 671,000 miles (about 1 million km) per hour. It will take about 4.5 billion years for it to collide with the Milky Way.
gX0y TIL: There is a tree in Utah named “Pando” that is estimated to weigh over 13,000,000 lbs and has lived for over 80,000 years