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TIL that Sean Astin (LOTR, Goonies etc) is the adopted son of John Astin (Gomez from The Addams Family)

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NXr4N TIL: London has the most foreign-born people of any city in the world at 40%
dDeGE TIL that 22 monuments that would have been flooded by the construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt were physically relocated by an international campaign created by UNESCO. The success of the campaign eventually led to the creation of the system of World Heritage Sites.
K4WG TIL According to estimates 100.8 billion people have died before us.
nemkd TIL 80% of the world's vanilla is grown on a single island
0d841 TIL that Julia “Butterfly” Hill, an environmental activist, lived in a 1500-year-old California redwood tree named Luna, 180 feet (55 mm) off the ground for 738 days to prevent Pacific Lumber Company from chopping it down. Her efforts were successful in saving the tree.