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TIL there's a film adaptation of Hatchet that spawned 3 sequels.

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kOBZ7 TIL of Dean Karnazes; Ultra-Marathon runner who ran 350 miles (560 km) in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep in 2005
PY1oZ TIL until 2008, Walmart Mexico was paying its employees with gift cards only redeemable at Walmart.
epmvn TIL The grandniece of China's last emperor is an artist who opened a gallery in Vancouver's Chinatown where she sells her paintings and displays works dedicated to explaining the Qing dynasty
KYAmG TIL in 1985, drug smugglers dropped 40 containers of cocaine from a plane above Tennessee because the plane was too heavy. 3 months later, investigators found the containers and a dead black bear that had consumed 75 pounds of the drug. It’s stomach was “literally packed to the brim with cocaine.”
aE6L TIL in the desert in Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there are series of thousands ancient huge, wheel-shaped structures which can only be viewed from space, similar to Nazca lines in Peru