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TIL sand from the Sahara is blown by the wind all the way to the Amazon, recharging its minerals. The desert literally fertilizes the rainforest.

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Br97L TIL Coca-Cola did not invent the modern image of the red and white clothed Santa Claus through their famous campaigns of the 1930's. His modern look goes back as far as the 1880's through an illustrator named Thomas Nast.
PJJG TIL Chris Farley was suppose to be the voice of Shrek (he was over 80% done with the dialogue before he died)
VMYZ4 TIL James Cameron was supposed to make a Spider Man film in the 1990s with Leonardo DiCaprio as Spider Man & Arnold Schwarzenegger as Doctor Octopus
b6yj TIL that every year engineering students hang a VW bug from a bridge in Vancouver
E16dW TIL that comedian Ryan Stiles from Whose Line is it Anyway? has been a frequent fund raiser for children with burn injuries, raising over $500,000 for the Burned Children Recovery Center since 2009, helping the foundation to recover from the economy crash of 2008.