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TIL that Steve Irwin was buried at his beloved Australia Zoo

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QJ5bX TIL that the working title for "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" was "Bill & Ted go to Hell".
85BX TIL that after the 1628 Batavia disaster, two dutch sailors were left to die in Australia…or so everyone thought. A century later, British settlers found unusually light-skinned Aborigines in the area that suggest the two marooned sailors may have actually thrived instead.
Wo44 TIL a small investigation of “faux fur” trim on Tommy Hilfiger and Nordstrom items found that 24 out of 25 were real fur– of domestic cats and dogs (possibly stolen) and even wolves.
arvJ TIL that bluetooth was named after Harald Bluetooth - King of Denmark 1000 years ago. The bluetooth logo is made from the Nordic runes of his initials.
j6PXQ TIL the myth of a Deaf Frenchman and a hearing American teaching each other their languages on an ocean voyage in 1816, prior to establishing the first school for the Deaf in the US is not only true, but meticulously-documented. (And The Lincoln statue hands really do show his initials in ASL.)