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TIL that the iconic tumbleweed found throughout the American Southwest was accidently imported to the USA from Russia in 1877.

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o7VE TIL After pleas to remove a radio tower went unheard the French decided to simply blow it up. When the Soviet General angrily asked how could they do this, the French General Responded “With dynamite, my dear colleague.”
jNkLM TIL that in the film Blue Lagoon, Brooke Shields had to walk in shallow trenches because she is almost 178 cm (5'10) while Christopher Atkins is just 167 cm (around 5'6). He later described the experience as "like having the Statue of Liberty standing beside me".
OoM1X TIL that there is a near-abandoned Flintstones-themed camp ground and amusement park in Arizona, about 30 minutes from the Grand Canyon, complete with year-round camping and a "Bedrock Theater" that plays Flintstones cartoons
GArg TIL that taco bell’s meat has added fiber because of all the wood pulp in it.
x9dB TIL there’s a real life Russian ghost ship floating around in the Atlantic ocean named the Lyubov Orlova