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TIL Dolly Parton once entered a Dolly Parton lookalike contest - and lost to a man

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YpNEW TIL in 1995 civil engineers warned the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, S. Korea that structural failure was inevitable and it needed to be evacuated. They didn't close because it was so busy and it collapsed that day with 500+ people inside. One director left without warning his daughter in law.
OGeL TIL that when &%#@$ replace profanity with a #&@%ing string of typographic symbols it’s called a grawlix
pYRJN TIL among the most endangered species, three reside in Ethiopia, the walia ibex of the Simien Mountains, the mountain nyala (a kind of antelope), and the Simien jackal. All three species are found in the Western & Eastern highlands in numbers ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.
6E0Vw TIL the song from the movie 1917 ‘I Am A Poor Wayfaring Stranger’ was originally sung by Johnny Cash
EgdaW TIL It is impossible for pandas to develop a connection with humans. Although experts who worked with pandas have grew a fondness for them, none of them had any illusions that their feelings were reciprocated.