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TIL Bill Murray was apparently forced to promote the new Ghostbusters movie under threat of lawsuit (according to leaked Sony emails)

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yMJM TIL of a three year old Russian girl who survived for 11 days in Siberian taiga forest by drinking from a creek and eating berries while being protected by her dog which went to get help after nine days and returned with rescuers.
P11Rg TIL In 2018, National Geographic magazine apologized for publishing decades of unacceptable past coverage after editor Susan Goldberg found a photo caption of Aborginal Australians from 1916 that left her "speechless". During that era, indigenous Australians were anticipated to be a dying race
7rmo7 TIL that Santos Dumont, a Brazilian aviator believed that air travel would bring world peace, therefore he offered his works for free, was accused of espionage during ww1. And he killed himself after witnessing planes being used in warfare.
4k4Xa TIL Helsinki has a 200 mile network of underground tunnels and bunkers that could shelter the city's entire population of 630,000 in the event of invasion.
jNMjp TIL Fidel Castro had a strange dairy obsession, and would craft elaborate schemes such as a "race of super cows" and tiny cows to keep as house pets. He even bred a cow that produced over 100 liters of milk in a day