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TIL Rick Moranis is trying to get back into the public spotlight.

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oBANo TIL that the African country of "Swaziland" has changed its name to "Eswatini" in April 2018.
o6Wo TIL all vanilla beans must be hand pollinated because the only species of bee capable of pollinating a vanilla bean orchid is likely extinct.
grX99 TIL about the CSS Hunley, a confederate submarine that sank three times, killing her entire crew each time.
Wk5DB TIL in 1968 Mao Zedong received a box of 40 mangoes from Pakistan. They were taken on a tour of China and became part of Chinese propaganda. A dentist that compared the mangoes to sweet potatoes in appearance was executed.
wRRY TIL Bill Murray was caught smuggling 4.5kg of cannabis after he joked to the passenger next to him that he was smuggling cannabis