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TIL there was a nightly firefall at Yosemite for 88 years.
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TIL That Jason Todd died in Batman because of a poll where calling 1-(900)-720-2660 voted in saving Jason or 1-(900)-720-2666 to kill him after 10,614 votes where 5,343 in favor of killing him and 5,271 in saving him and it was later revealed that one guy called to kill Jason over 100 times
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TIL in 1993, an FBI agent in a gorilla suit helped catch Mexican zoo officials who were attempting to smuggle primates from America to Mexico illegally. The five people that were caught were charged with trafficking primates in violation of federal laws protecting endangered species.
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TIL Washington, DC, is home to one of the largest Ethiopian populations in the world, 2nd only to that of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. While official census data shows about 30,000 Ethiopians in the DC area, others estimate that the true number is closer to 250,000.
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TIL the movie Idiocracy (2006) had a budget of $2.4 million and only made $500k at the box office. “Beset by a low budget and no advertising support from 20th Century Fox, Idiocracy almost didn’t happen at all. The fact that it exists is a miracle.”
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TIL: An old woman approached Stephen King in a supermarket and said “You are the horror writer. I don’t read anything that you do. I just like things more genuine, like that Shawshank Redemption.” He said, “I wrote that”. And she said, “No you didn’t”. And she walked off and went on her way.