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TIL the NYPD once used a photo of three-time Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson to find and arrest a beer thief who looked like the actor.

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A9Xa TIL in 2005, a woman performing her first solo skydive jump survived a parachute malfunction which caused her to slam face first into a parking lot at 50 MPH. During surgery doctors discovered she was pregnant. She made a full recovery and the baby was fine.
Bddy TIL that there is a mouse that hunts and eats meat, and also howls at the moon like a tiny wolf.
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0dgyL TIL once commonly known as “the redwood of the east,” American Chestnut trees are almost entirely extinct in the wild as of the 1940s with the exception of small, scattered populations
pYe4b TIL Duke Kahanamoku was not only a 5-time Olympic medalist in swimming, but also a pioneering surfer who is credited with popularizing surfing around the world. Later in life Kahanamoku was elected to serve as the Sheriff of Honolulu, Hawaii from 1932 to 1961.