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TIL that Jurassic Park IV is finally being made

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rNdaM TIL: Unknown to Johnny Cash when he recorded it, "Ring of Fire" was written by June Carter about falling in love with him and her torment because she was married to someone else. She sang backup on Cash's version. Years later, when they were both divorced, they met again and eventually married.
4X5vw TIL that "Blue Blood" as a synonym for royalty, came from Spain following the Reconquista, in which some spanish nobles would show their pale skin, with blue veins showing, as proof that they had never mixed with the Moors who occupied Spain for centuries.
xV0X7 TIL Abraham Lincoln in in the Wrestling Hall of Fame. He was an accomplished wrestler who won 299/300 matches.
bO14 TIL of an Australian birthday tradition; where after cutting the cake, the birthday girl/boy has to kiss the nearest person of the opposite sex.
yQXR8 TIL - Tress are being genetically modified to grow faster and withstand frost in an effort to provide renewable energy.