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p85jb TIL Betty Lynn, the actress who played Thelma Lou on the Andy Griffith Show, moved in 2007 from her native Los Angeles to Mount Airy, NC, the inspiration for Mayberry, where she is treated like royalty and still visits with fans at age 93.
166xO TIL in 1986 a Hotel in Singapore collapsed. Authorities were using heavy machinery to rescue survivors, a team of mainly Irish tunneling experts working on a new subway saw what was happening, and convinced authorities to let them tunnel for survivors instead. 17 people were rescued by them.
lDDV TIL while bored during his work with the Manhattan Project Richard Feynman would amuse himself by picking the locks of his colleagues confidential file cabinets and placing prank notes, his colleagues believed a spy had infiltrated the project.
0db6L TIL that earthworms are not native to North America. Glaciers from the Pleistocene ice age wiped out most native earthworms over 10,000 years ago. New earthworms began entering North America as early as the 1600s, with the first European settlers.
e0kaL TIL That Lions still live in their natural habitat in India. There are an estimated 650 lions living in Gir National Park. This makes India the only country where lions and tigers could theoretically meet in the wild.