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TIL that Princess Bride Robin Wright and Carey Elwes were in Jim Carrey's 'A Christmas Carol'

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4ll5 TIL that in 1910, Congress nearly passed “the American Hippo Bill”, which would have released hippos in Louisiana bayous in order to eat invasive plants while solving America’s meat shortage. Newspapers of the time praised hippo meat as “lake cow bacon”.
9wg7B TIL that when Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, Pablo Picasso was a suspect.
kkdg TIL there exists a cave so massive that it has its own weather system
4Xmjw TIL the nuclear bomb tests in the 1940s can help identify forged paintings by using radiocarbon dating. Authenticators can count the number of carbon 14 isotopes and decide whether the number is realistic for the time. Carbon 14 isotopes are known to have dramatically increased after these tests.
WlZL TIL that in 1919, a dog named Tang saved 92 people after their boat capsized in stormy seas. The dog jumped into the stormy seas with the boat’s tow rope in his mouth and swam to shore where the rope was used to tow the boat in.