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TIL up to a quarter of California smog originates in China

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lMor TIL the popular steel slide guitar sound of Hawaii was taught to them by visiting cowboys from a small town in California.
GYrJ1 TIL Elephant tusks are starting to get smaller and in the future more Elephants will be without tusks because we killed most elephants with big tusks and removed them from gene pool.
lYEa TIL that actor Javier Bardem was hesitant to play Anton Chigurh in ‘No Country For Old Men’ because he hated violence, had never fired a gun, was uncomfortable speaking English and doesn’t drive a car.
p871Z TIL Mark Hamill played Mozart in the play Amadeus. When a movie adaptation of the play was being developed Mark Hamill wanted to audition to play Mozart again. Director Miloš Forman refused to let Hamill even audition for the part because he didn’t think Luke Skywalker should be playing the Mozart.
rovo TIL Nunavut has the lowest graduation rate in Canada and a student from Qikiqtarjuaq became the first high schooler to graduate in four years in 2016