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TIL Michelin stars only go to three, one being "Very good", two being "Worth a detour" and three "Worth a special trip"

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XEVkk TIL that 21 detached human feet have been found in the Salish Sea (near Vancouver and Seattle) between 2007 and 2019. The odds of finding just two dismembered feet in the same location is a million to one. No one definitively knows what caused this phenomenon.
rNe9M TIL when Ben Stiller decided to play the lead role in Tropic Thunder himself, Tom Cruise called him & said that "he just couldn't get the script out of his mind" & asked him "What else is open?" Stiller suggested the role which Cruise had actually invented, studio head Les Grossman, and he took it.
OGaxR TIL that all hippopotamus in Colombia are descendants of hippopotamus brought in by Pablo Escobar, with their numbers ranging from 80 to 100s in Colombia.
MY8K TIL of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 where over 1500 peaceful protestors were shot dead in 10 minutes by the British in India
R9mj TIL: Double stuffed oreos only have 1.86x the cream that regular oreos have, not double.