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TIL Kurt Cobain stood up for a woman who was being groped at a Nirvana concert

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R7En8 TIL that in 2013 the United States bombed the island of Guam with 2,000 dead mice stuffed with painkillers to kill the Brown Tree Snake which is an invasive species on the island. The snake got there by accident in the 1950s on a shipping vessel.
XErJ8 TIL the children's cartoon Arthur is still producing new episodes and is on its 21st season, and has been running longer than South Park
xVJ6D TIL Laura Dern and her mother, Diane Ladd, both starred in dinosaur-themed movies in 1993 - (Jurassic Park and Carnosaur).
ajmL TIL: Jupiter is so large that it and the Sun mutually orbit a point outside of the Sun itself.
KYggG TIL that The first known book to be printed with removable metal type is a Buddhist treatise printed in Korea in 1377, seventy-eight years before the Gutenberg Bible.