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TIL that the cat held by Marlon Brando in the opening scene of The Godfather used to hang around the studio and was simply dropped into his lap at the last minute by the director

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KOaPB TIL The first tent erected at the South Pole by the Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen on its arrival on 14 December 1911 is still there, buried beneath 17 meters of snow.
dDmjK TIL that cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, etc. are all varieties of one species: Brassica oleracea
rRkL1 TIL that grasshoppers are the same insect as locusts. When forced into overcrowded areas with little food, they transform, becoming stronger, more aggressive, and swarm to eat anything in sight
rnly TIL the engineer of the Kalka-Shimla Railway in India killed himself after miscalculation of where two halves of a tunnel would meet
P17AE TIL that the "City" of "Rancho Cucamonga" in the US State of California; is believed to be named after a ~historically "local" Native American term/phrase which implied the designation of; a "Sandy Place", a "Place of Many Springs", or, of, "The Place of the Light over the Mountain".