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TIL the park visitor shown running while double fisting the margaritas in Jurassic World is actually Jimmy Buffett.

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R55wj TIL that more than half of the population of our planet has never seen snow and can judge it, only from photos and eyewitness accounts .
oRZJW TIL Robert W. Service sent his poems to his father to be printed and given as gifts to friends. Service received back an offer of royalties for publication, the printers had loved the poems, The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses was an immediate success and Service quit his bank job the next year.
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