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TIL that snakes can save us from Earthquakes!

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XErPQ TIL that Ursula K. Le Guin once rejected an offer from Hayao Miyazaki to adapt her Earthsea series for the screen, but changed her mind after watching Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro
Y6X7 TIL that John Oliver, from the Daily Show, met his wife at the 2008 Republican National Convention. He was doing a piece for the show, and she was working for “Veterans For Freedom.” She helped to hide him, the other correspondents, and the camera crew from security.
8aOwb TIL: Africa has a "stonehenge" older than Stonehenge. Built "to mark the summer solstice and the arrival of the monsoons," Nabta Playa, "the oldest stone circle in the world" is among "Earth’s oldest astronomical" observatories. Over 7000 years old, it was found mostly-buried in sand in the 1970s.
ma4y TIL Nintendo encouraged Wreck it Ralph producers to use Mario in the film but the producers thought Mario’s fame would take away from Ralph and the story.
R5meQ TIL that all of the shots of the little island above Bikini Bottom in Spongebob Squarepants were filmed in Genndy Tartakovsky's pool