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TIL Nic Cage hired an alcoholic to follow him around so he could emulate his behaviour for Leaving Las Vegas.

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OoZe4 TIL the backstory of the woman behind the "woman yelling at cat" meme- Taylor Armstrong was on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and was upset with a costar for revealing on camera that Armstrong was being abused by her then husband
d8MXr TIL: Scientists have developed eye drops that correct near/far-sighted vision without the need for surgery.
9w5ZG TIL a Triple Tautonym occurs when a genus, species name, and subspecies name are all the same word. Examples include Gorilla gorilla gorilla (western lowland gorilla) and Pica pica pica (Eurasian magpie). These names are allowed in Zoology but not in Botany.
QN9pk TIL that in 2015, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) decided to allow the first limited black bear hunt in the state since the 1990s. However, the hunt was ended abruptly when hunters killed 295 bears out of the 320-bear limit in just 2 days.
XJ0X TIL a book entitled Atlanta Nights was written by a group of sci-fi authors to be intentionally bad as a test for the publisher PublishAmerica. It included a chapter containing computer generated random sentences, and chapter 17 and 4 are word for word identical. The publisher accepted it.