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TIL Japan has its own version of Bigfoot and it's called Hibagon.

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D1GRP TIL Charlie Murphy interviewed for the movie CB4 by pointing a loaded 9 mm pistol at Chris Rock during the audition.
d8bY7 TIL in the first Gulf War a B-52 bomber mistakenly targeted a fighter with their tail gun radar. The fighter shot back with a HARM missile, causing damage, but no fatalities. Afterwards, the bomber was renamed "In HARM's Way."
b6PxZ TIL ecologist Suzanne Simard wanted to know why the forest got sick every time the foresters killed the birch trees, thought to harm fir trees. She discovered that birch trees actually pass nutrients to fir trees underground via a complex fungal network and were maintaining balance in the ecosystem
1B4D TIL Chuck Norris supported California’s Prop 8 and opposes the National Day of Silence, an annual event honoring LGBT rights.
4XKG5 TIL: Every Banana sold in the UK is a clone of the banana grown at the famous Staffordshire theme park 'Alton Towers'