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TIL: Coach Stan Van Gundy was fined for saying NBA shouldn’t be playing games on Christmas Day

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w0R1 TIL That E.T. The Extra Terrestrial is from the Asogian species in the Star Wars Universe.
4XOyg TIL In 1935 a seaplane carrying two million rubles in cash vanished in a remote part of Siberia. The wreckage and remains of the crew were found 80 years later. There was no sign of the cash.
wLYwY TIL that a study of Toxoplasma gondii, which is estimated to be infecting around 1,000 people every day in Britain, has found that it makes chimpanzees more attracted to the smell of leopards, their main predators in the wild.
x64w1 TIL In 1910 when Hollywood merged into Los Angeles, there were already 10 movie companies operating in the city at the time. By 1921, more than 80 percent of the world's film industry was concentrated in L.A.
pYY6N TIL that the movie "Jaws" used an engineless, fiberglass boat that could "sink on command" and resurface. The Orca II was a replica of the wooden Orca, a real boat used as Quinn's shark hunting ship at the end of the film. Pneumatic tubes tipped barrels mounted below Orca II to fill up and sink it.