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TIL that Los Angeles has an abandoned zoo you can explore

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90RD TIL in 1956 Paul Hogan shocked the art world by unhooking an Impressionist masterpiece from a wall in the Tate Gallery (London) and carrying it calmly out of the gallery. Despite being photographed by journalists while he was stealing it, he’s never been prosecuted.
negyd TIL Alvin and the Chipmunks have won 5 Grammy Awards
Zpk1R TIL Glen Campbell had such an incredible falsetto that in 1964 he was hired as Brian Wilson’s touring replacement in the Beach Boys after Brian had nervous breakdown and withdrew at the last minute.
v1OaK TIL the cost of an oil change for a Bugatti Veyron is $20,000.
dD5R9 TIL that while filming Barry Lyndon in Ireland in 1974, director Stanley Kubrick received a phone call alleging that the IRA had him on a hit list and gave him 24 hours to leave the country. He left within 12 hours, with the film being only one-third completed.