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TIL that giant ground sloths dug enormous burrows in South America thousands of years ago that still exist today. The biggest ones are over 6 feet tall and 2,000 feet long.

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Brk0K TIL that Christopher Nolan was so secretive about Interstellar that he initially asked Hans Zimmer to compose the score with just a one-page story about a father who leaves his child to do an important job instead of giving him the script. It contained two lines of dialogue: "I'll come back & when?"
9YPgQ TIL of the "World's Littlest Skyscraper", a building built in 1919 by a man who accepted $200,000 (in the 1910s) for it's construction, neglecting to point out to investors that the listed height of 480 was in inches, not feet.
kJalg TIL Major League Baseball player Keith Comstock is best known for being traded for a bag of baseballs (which he had to deliver himself), and for featuring on a baseball card where he's pictured being hit in the nuts
LklQ9 TIL The Doors drummer John Densmore was sued by remaining bandmates b/c he wouldn’t let them sell the commercial rights to their songs to Cadillac, saying late singer Jim Morrison would have opposed it. During a 6-year court battle, he was called anti-American, communist and Al Qaeda supporter.
J1Bxm TIL Roy Orbison's song "I Drove All Night" was first released on the Super Mario World-themed "White Knuckle Scorin'," a compilation licensed by Nintendo and released by MCA Records in 1991. Orbison recorded the song in 1987, it became a posthumous hit in 1992.