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TIL Bank of America was intially called Bank of Italy

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OGjk7 TIL of conservation-induced extinction. In efforts to save critically endangered animals, multiple other species have gone extinct. Common practice in conservation programs of birds and mammals is to remove all parasites, driving certain species of parasite unique to these animals to extinction.
xVnno TIL Jim Carrey was the first actor to have three films go straight to number one in the same year. The year was 1994, and the films were The Mask, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and Dumb and Dumber.
kY4B TIL that in 2011 Geico spent just under one billion dollars on advertising
kkdg TIL there exists a cave so massive that it has its own weather system
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