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TIL The movie "Bad Boys" was originally supposed to star Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz

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6Eejw TIL that if you were to stand at the top of the Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest planetary mountain in the solar system, you would not be able to tell you were on a mountain due to the shallow slope in the mountain extending further than the horizon line, which is a mere three kilometers away.
m1G9o TIL when Spanish explorers learned of pecans they called them "nuez de la arruga", which roughly translates to "wrinkle nut".
lo8M5 TIL the bearded vulture feeds almost exclusively on bone. Bones that are too large to eat have to be dropped from the sky and shattered against rock. The process can take years to master and practiced individuals will often use one favored dropping site known as an ossuary.
rNVDx TIL The main reason mike the chicken died was because his throat was not cleared and he choked on mucus
5VLgB TIL It's estimated Martha Stewart avoided a loss of $45,673 during her insider trading scandal for which she was sentenced to 5 months in prison. Her net worth was over $1 billion at the time