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TIL "Hollywood" became "Holywood" briefly, when Pope John Paul II made a visit to USA on September 1987.

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r5Rw TIL that the largest cave in the world, which houses a rain forest in its largest chamber, wasn’t discovered until 1991, and wasn’t explored until 2009.
wo5dW TIL that squirrels were once considered among the top causes for power outages across the US
9r5m TIL Bill Gates once unleashed a swarm of mosquitoes into a crowd at a tech conference. Displaying the need to eradicate malaria, he explained to the crowd “there is no reason only poor people should be infected.”
VB4Q TIL during the filming of ‘Cabin Fever,’ Rider Strong decided to explore the forest alone after a shoot, still in his gruesome makeup. He came across a group of schoolgirls on a field trip, who were horrified, but then recognized him from 'Boy Meets World,’ and he had to escape from the fangirls.
QJjbe TIL pigeons are everywhere because humans domesticated them 10,000 years ago for food, and have since been using them for other things until they were abandoned and perfectly adapted for an urban environment