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TIL Filmmaker Wes Anderson is the great-grandson of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs

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8jab TIL that until 1999, the State of Montana didn’t have a speed limit on the interstate, and instead encouraged drivers to be “reasonable and prudent”
QjDe TIL the piano Freddie Mercury plays in Bohemian Rhapsody is the same exact piano Paul McCartney plays in Hey Jude.
m1a5p TIL zebras and donkeys can breed resulting in a zonkey
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