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TIL that during the tablecloth scene from the Grinch, Jim Carrey was supposed to pull everything off of the table, but he accidentally pulled the tablecloth clean off without knocking anything over, so he went back and improvised knocking everything down.
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TIL that Prime Minister Harold Holt, the Prime Minister who most likely drowned at sea in 1967, is commemorated by the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Iris.
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TIL Sometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. Today, maize accounts for more than half the calories people consume in many African countries. Maize supplanted Africa’s own historical grain crops—sorghum, millet, and rice
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TIL that romance author Barbara Cartland, in addition to writing an estimated 723 novels (160 published posthumously), selling around 1 BILLION copies, was an early pioneer of gliding and helped design the first aircraft-towed airmail delivery glider.
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TIL “We're currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.” That’s more than 10 species every day.