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TIL that when actor John C. Reilly was 12 year old, he and his friends stole 500 boxes of Sugar Corn Pops from a freight train.

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Oo9aY TIL of the "Giant Panda Kindergarten" in China where 18 cubs celebrated their 1st birthday in 2019. Researchers mistakenly thought pandas liked solitary life & kept each panda in a tiny den; the pandas got depressed & didn't want to mate; this changed when pandas were allowed to hang out together.
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