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TIL that turtles survive car hits and can suffer for weeks on the road before eventually dying. :(

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xVPbg TIL Will Ferrell made a 100% Spanish movie called Casa de mi Padre
JYWgQ TIL that the Empire State Building was constructed so rapidly (1 year and 45 days) that the steel arrived warm to the touch from Carnegie Pennsylvania.
kOd0e TIL that 'lava balloons' can form with eruptions; causing gas-filled bubbles made of lava to float on the ocean. They have been observed up to 3m in diameter, and in only five places on earth.
MeOam TIL The city of Lexington KY holds a Halloween parade every year in which citizens can sign up to dress as zombies and dance to Thriller behind a Micheal Jackson impersonator. The event has gotten so popular there are now six Micheal Jacksons throughout the city.
9wDQG TIL Jon Favreau, creator of The Book of Boba Fett, confirmed to Patton Oswalt that the scene of Fett's hand reaching out of the sand to escape from the Sarlacc pit was cut to match Oswalt's description of it in his improvised filibuster pitch for Star Wars: Episode VII on an episode of Parks & Rec.