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TIL Joseph Heller, author of Catch 22, wouldn’t begin a story without envisioning both an opening and closing line.

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MeZkK TIL Tropical rainforests cover less than 3% of Earth's area, yet they are home to more than half our planet's terrestrial animal species. Bengal tigers, mountain gorillas, orangutans, jaguars, and blue poison dart frogs are just a few of the magnificent animals found in rainforests.
KAR6 TIL that, initially, the Roswell UFO incident was almost immediately dismissed and forgotten until The National Enquirer ran a story on it in 1980.
R757a TIL stuffing made in a pan outside of cooked poultry is called 'dressing' and if made inside the fowl, it's called 'stuffing.'
W7OeY TIL it was legal to enslave children in Switzerland until 1981
X0V4r TIL a man died two years ago in Florida searching for a frisbee in a pond when an alligator killed him