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TIL that Youtube-dl existed

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g4BW TIL a team at Nike created a pair of sneakers inspired by the ‘Heaven’s Gate’ UFO cult (who wore Nike Decades when they killed themselves). They never made it into stores.
gYeD TIL Howie Mandel (voice of Gizmo in Gremlins) has a separate, smaller house in his back yard to live in when one of his family members is sick due to his irrational fear of germs.
P1lOO TIL three of the richest counties in the US are Washington DC suburbs
DQ7aP TIL that "many large opossums (Didelphini) are immune to the venom of rattlesnakes and pit vipers (Crotalinae) and regularly prey upon these snakes."
XEyyj TIL that cavemen had relatively straight teeth and that crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon