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TIL Def Leppard is re-recording their entire back catalogue to screw over their label

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XxYD TIL the dinosaurs featured in the film Pee Wee’s Big Adventure are now part of a Creationist Museum that claims the earth is around 6,000 years old.
DQDlV TIL Tossing Puffin Chicks off of a cliff in Iceland is vital to the survival of the species
x6A80 TIL that Cambodian King Jayavarman VII built 102 hospitals in order to serve the people of the Khmer Empire.
WXld TIL: The ASPCA (sad dog commercials) CEO makes almost $600k/year and the charity has a financial rating of 76.
aww0J TIL Louis XIV's minister of finance had the huge Forest of Troncais created in 1670 to provide the future French Navy with a supply of oak masts. When the forest reached maturity 250 years later, the navy was busy switching to steam ships.