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TIL death metal band Cannibal Corpse made a guest appearance in Jim Carrey's 1994 comedy film "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective".

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rRdVe TIL that Dolly the Sheep was named after Dolly Parton. Dolly was cloned from mammary gland cells and Doctor Ian Wilmut could not think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's.
bbJ0 TIL that in 1986, a volcanic lake in Cameroon, Africa burped a C02 gas cloud that killed 1,746 people in minutes
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