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TIL That Red Lobster donated a rare blue Lobster to the Akron Zoo

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xVQx1 TIL that anything went for a brief period in Hollywood at the start of the sound era, when suggestions of sex, sin and sordidness were all waved through by the censors.
Y71DZ TIL of the 1924 Babbs fire, in which young Mary Eden’s body was never found. In 1957, a woman came forward, claiming to be the long-lost child. A local editor knew the story was a hoax, but withheld it until 1999 at the request of the father, who believed his wife could not endure losing Mary again.
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.
b9OE9 til in 2017 McDonald forced the two locations that were still selling McPizza to take them off the menu
MVnb TIL that in 1920’s the Hollywood-sign was lit by thousands of light bulbs and the guy who changed the burnt ones, lived in a little cabin near the sign.