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TIL Jungles cover only 6% of the earth but contain over half the species on the planet.

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rBV0 TIL a Masai tribe in Kenya gave 14 cows to America after hearing about the 9/11 attacks
AELg TIL Steven Spielberg initially considered filming Schindler’s List entirely in German and Polish, but decided he “wanted people to watch the images, not read subtitles. There’s too much safety in reading. It would have been an excuse to take their eyes off the screen and watch something else.”
jNdpp TIL- The "No Animals Were Harmed" moniker on movies only applies while film is actually recording.
9wk17 TIL in 1931, during the Great Depression, there were so many news accounts of starving USA citizens that colonial-era Cameroon in west Africa raised money for Americans as aid. They collected $3.77 - about $70 today.
VM1bk TIL that the first TV show that Michael J. Fox was in was Leo and Me. Four members of the cast and crew later caught Parkinson’s Disease causing some to suggest that there was an environmental factor.