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TIL Naked mole rats are immune to cancer

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pD68 TIL that a newspaper posted a poll asking readers if watching Blackfish – a documentary critical of SeaWorld for keeping orcas captive – changed their opinions of SeaWorld. The results were “No.” It was later revealed that 55% of the votes came from a single IP-address … hosted by SeaWorld
ZpvaB TIL that Robert Downey Jr., Sean Penn and Charlie Sheen went to the same high school.
Y771r TIL: Colma, California was founded as a necropolis and the dead still outnumber the living 1000:1. The town's motto is "it's great to be alive in Colma".
b9djZ TIL that Haddonfield, IL in Halloween (1978) was actually filmed in California in May. They scattered around artificial leaves which they had to gather and re-use in other scenes, and in a few scenes palm trees can be spotted.
VMKpp TIL Mountain Dew was originally developed as a mixer for liquor. Tennessee bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman developed Mountain Dew as a mixer in the 1940s as they had difficulty in Knoxville obtaining their preferred soda to mix with liquor, preferably whiskey, so they developed their own.