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TIL that the child who voiced Ducky in The Land Before Time, Judith Barsi, was murdered by her father.

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YdRP TIL of NASA’s sound suppression system which soaks the launch pad with 300,000 gallons of water, reducing acoustical levels within the orbiter payload bay to about 142 decibels.
ppbp TIL that Jim Carrey received CIA training on how to withstand torture in order to mentally survive the multiple 8.5 hours of makeup required for The Grinch.
yVG6p TIL Unlike the Hawaiian taught in schools, the Niʻihau dialect maintains the variation between [r] and [l], in addition to [t] and [k]. Some other pockets of speakers on Molokai and Maui have also been found to maintain the [t] variant.
a86eN TIL there is an artificial island in Maldives called Thilafushi, which was created as a landfill to help with the waste from the capital city Malé. This dumpsite has been neglected and abandoned for the last three decades and it is now just starting to see positive changes.
QJ4BM TIL between 63rd and 76th streets in New York City, scientists discovered an ant species found nowhere else on earth. It has been nicknamed the “ManhattAnt.”