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TIL of Fordlandia, a suburban town built in the Amazon Rainforest by Henry Ford in 1928 with aims to control the rubber market.

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wLn7 TIL that a baboon named Fu Manchu repeatedly escaped from his cage at the zoo using a key he had fashioned from a piece of wire. Every time his zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth.
JP1Q TIL Anthony Hopkins Was Such A Bad Alcoholic That He Once Woke Up In Arizona With No Memory Of How He Arrived…
epRwE TIL that Pixar originated in 1974 as a university lab that tried to make a computer-generated film. Realizing that computers weren’t good enough, the lab workers joined the film industry, made special effects and sold software and hardware until technology in the early 90s let them make “Toy Story.”
X04GQ TIL scar ectopic pregnancies can happen in Caesarean section scars and are increasing in incidence
n5bo TIL that in the Spring of 1976, groundskeepers at Anaheim stadium discovered hundreds of marijuana plants growing in the outfield, apparently left by thousands of Who fans who had attended a concert there in the offseason and scattered the seeds everywhere. Angels in the outfield indeed…