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TIL there exists a cave so massive that it has its own weather system

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wDXE TIL that actor Andre Royo’s portrayal of the heroin addicted character “Bubbles” from The Wire was so good, that an actual Baltimore citizen gave Royo a vial of heroin on the streets in between shoots, saying, “you need a fix more than I do.” Royo calls it his “Street Oscar.”
16rMW TIL that in New Caledonia, there are marine snakes known as sea kraits which are extremely venomous but also so shy and unlikely to bite that children have been known to play with them.
m1ENx TIL that panthers aren't actually a species of big cat, but just a term for a black jaguar or leopard
vjE4 TIL That there is a website called worldometers which updates various statistics such as births, deaths, economic expenditure and CO2 emissions (as well as much more) in real time.
KOkgQ TIL about Kiviak, a traditional Inuit food from Greenland that consists of up to 500 small birds stuffed into a seal skin and left to ferment for several months. "The fermented intestinal fluids are sucked out from the whole birds, or used as a sauce for other foods."