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TIL That Fraggle Rock was HBO’s first original TV Series

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0Bo1 TIL a village in India planted over 80,000 mangrove trees to get a world record and the trees later protected the village from a flood.
PY7oZ TIL that Jesus could have owned a pair of scissors - "The earliest known scissors appeared in Mesopotamia 3,000 to 4,000 years ago".
4X51o TIL of Charles Dickinson West who was hired by the Empire of Japan in 1882 to teach steam engine mechanics & mechanical engineering at Tokyo University. He assisted in the development of the Imperial Japanese Navy & was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by Emperor Meiji in 1905.
5rXQ TIL Bill Murray was paid $9,000 for his role in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore. He also gave Wes a $25,000 check to pay for a helicopter scene the that the studio wouldn’t finance
boeQ TIL that Gladys O'Connor, the crazy tour guide from Billy Madison, just missed out on being on the Titanic and lived to be 108 years old