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TIL Home Alone was filmed in an abandoned high school (and Ferris Bueller's Day Off was filmed there too)

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epEKD TIL that pineapples do not grow on trees, but on the ground
RjQ1 TIL that possums and opossums are actually two completely different animals. They share the fact that they are marsupials, but no other relation, and they live on opposite sides of the planet.
E1ka0 TIL there is a city in New Mexico, USA called 'Truth or Consequences'
9X7B TIL Pink Floyd’s hit album “The Wall” was influenced by a bunch of roudy concert goers who annoyed Rodger Waters so much that he decided to write an album about building a metaphorical wall.
KOaw TIL that during a siege in 1857, a mysterious Scottish soldier watched one his comrades get shot, and announced that he had joined the regiment simply to see that man die. He then ran into a breach singing Bible verses and trying unsuccessfully to get himself killed.