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TIL baby salmon were evacuated from a hatchery by tanker trucks in anticipation of the collapse of the Oroville Dam.

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wod78 TIL that the sun is not big enough to become a black hole.
7r9XZ TIL that in 1985 French Military Agents bombed a green peace vessel in a New Zealand harbor that was there to protest French Nuclear testing on a nearby island. The blast killed one crewmember.
dDpkK TIL of Bolaji Badejo, a Nigerian student, who was the suit performer of the Titular creature in Alien. He was discovered by the casting team at a Soho Pub in London. It was his sole acting credit.
b9y1p TIL Using lasers, Stanford scientists transformed hydrocarbon molecules in oil and natural gas into pure diamonds.
4AVw TIL That JK Rowling was originaly going to kill off Ron Weasley. During the christmas feast in the third year Ron was the first one to leave, meaning her prediction of “When 13 dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die” would be correct.