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TIL Someone really used to live like Robinson Crusoe

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8eM44 TIL Timothy Treadwell lost out on the role of Woody on "Cheers"
6Ew1m [TIL] The only original flying Fw190 from WW2, was found intact in a forest outside Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Russia in 1989.
DQ59P TIL Artists in Renaissance Europe often painted fake Arabic script on the halos and garment hems of Christian saints because they saw it on gilded Islamic artifacts and thought it looked cool. The artists didn't know Arabic and their paintings were just gibberish.
OJ6a TIL that when the screenwriter of Hotel Rwanda called the Rwandan embassy in Washington to get some information, the woman who picked up the phone actually turned out to be a one of the survivors who stayed at the hotel during the Rwandan Genocide.
wKbo TIL: In 2011 a pod of sperm whales temporarily adopted a deformed bottlenose dolphin