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TIL that the made up design for a character in A Bugs Life was found on a real beetle 8 years later

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kaEm TIL that 80 % of all cars in Kabul (Afghanistan) are Toyota Corollas
BrRBd TIL that tabloid The Sun isn't sold in Liverpool - a boycott going back to 30 years after they published a heinous lie about a local tragedy. Even Tesco won't carry it.
d8jMQ TIL The Deepest Point in the Ocean Known to Man is the Challenger Deep which is is 10,924 Meters or 10.92 Kilometers. And there is still life deep down under.
4XgGo TIL about the "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge", an anticyclone high pressure wall which was blocking the North Pacific storm track from getting rain to California over the last roughly 8 years, causing the state's recent record breaking drought. It has finally dissipated and now we get rain again.
PY4Ln TIL that even though both actors were in the same film (The Godfather Part 2), played in films with similar genres and are regarded as good friends since before their success, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino would not appear in the same scene together until starring in Heat in 1995.