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Oo41a TIL the jaguarundi, related to cougars and cheetahs, is a furtive, mostly diurnal, wild feline native to southern North America and South America with relatively short legs, an elongated body, and a long bushy tail. The ears are short and rounded, and its coat is without spots and uniform in color.
0K5y TIL Robert Downey Jr. was able to return to the big screen after his drug addicted past because Mel Gibson paid his insurance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective after no one else would insure him on a movie set.
e0OAD TIL 1 in 4 Irish citizens either died or left Ireland during the great potato famine of the 1840s.
xVVP0 TIL Domino's Noid mascot was discontinued because a mentally unstable man with the surname Noid thought that the commercials were a personal attack against him and held up a Domino's Store at gunpoint for 5 hours making several demands. Afterwords the police told reporters that "he's para-Noid."
PYZ1V TIL that someone created a life sized Jason Voorhees and planted him at the bottom of a lake for divers to stumble across