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TIL The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Was Distributed Through a Mafia-Owned Film Company

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JYkDQ TIL during the 2014 Groundhog Day festival, New York mayor Bill de Blasio dropped the Staten Island Zoo's weather-predicting groundhog on its head, killing it -- which was then covered up by zoo officials who claimed Staten Island Chuck had "died of natural causes"
pgpQ TIL when a factory worker from Wonka was asked about the production of Nerds candy, he said “Basically we start off with a sugar crystal and we just keep coating it with more sugar.”
5Y9Gk TIL that 17% of Sweden is covered in blueberry bushes.
8el9P TIL about the lia radiological accident, where three Georgians discovered two abandoned radioactive sources in the forest around which "there was no snow for about a 1 m (3.3 ft) radius, and the ground was steaming", they then decided to use them as heat sources for the night. One died.
G0bQ TIL that voles are capable of empathizing with each other. When a vole is mistreated, other voles will comfort it and spend more time grooming it.