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TIL that Venus flytraps are native to North Carolina

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8bY8 TIL for Superman (1978), Christopher Reeve refused to wear fake muscles under the suit and took an intense two-month training regimen supervised by David Prowse who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars films.
PY9vE TIL the original ending to Back to the Future would have Marty driving 88 mph towards a nuclear blast in a nuclear test site. However, Universal deemed it too expensive to shoot in the desert, so the lightning scene was instead shot at the Universal backlot and is shown in the final version.
a84EZ TIL legendary keyboardist and synthesist Rick Wakeman of Yes fame arranged and played piano in Cat Steven's version of "Morning Has Broken". Wakeman would not be paid or credited until after Stevens returned to music decades later as Yusuf Islam.
W7Jv4 TIL that every Depeche Mode studio album since Songs of Faith and Devotion in 1993 has hit #1 in Germany. That's 8 albums in a row now.
XLjR TIL a man received 5 years in prison after being caught sprinkling his feces onto baked goods at a grocery store.