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TIL that big name chewing gum is made up of rubber and plastics

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YpR6d TIL of Bobby Dunbar, a 4 year old who disappeared in 1912. 8 months later, he was supposedly found & returned to his family. In 2004, dna proved that the boy wasn’t Bobby. It’s unknown what happened to Bobby & who the little boy who lived as Bobby actually was.
Lk6RP TIL Oliver Stone’s original story for Platoon was called Break, based on his own experiences in the Vietnam War and set to music from The Doors. He sent the script to Jim Morrison hoping he would play the lead. Morrison never responded but he did have the script with him when he died in Paris.
D1xOJ TIL that electronics sniffing dogs are a real thing. They can even sniff out tiny microSD cards that are less than a millimeter thick.
K5ZE TIL researchers placed an exercise wheel in the wild and found it was used extensively by mice without any reward for using it. Other users included rats, shrews, and slugs.
LJ1m TIL PETA filed a lawsuit claiming that a crested black macaque monkey owns the copyright to a selfie he took of himself with a photographer’s unattended camera.