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TIL The dog that played Toto in The Wizard of Oz was paid a salary that was higher than the actors who played the Munchkins

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lV65 TIL Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as symbiosis. Insects will eat the burrowing tarantulas’ eggs - so the spiders protect the frogs from predators, and in return the frogs eat the insects.
WZML TIL that Tenochtitlan was possibly the highest populated city in the world before its fall, with 5 miles of aqueducts, a ten mile levee, and one of the most complicated class systems in the world at the time. Cortés of Spain leveled the entire city in 75 days.
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B4Gk TIL that the Miami Bath Salts Cannibal was actually not high on bath salts when he ate the face off of another man along the MacArthur Causeway three years ago
yBvl TIL that author J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan) founded a cricket team whose members included, among others, Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book), H. G. Wells (War of the Worlds), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), P. G. Wodehouse (Jeeves & Wooster), and A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh).