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TIL when actors screwed up on Tarantino's set, they had to say "Hi Sally" to editor Sally Menke as she had to sit for hours and watch the actors' different takes.

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0O0M TIL that when Lawrence Anthony, an international conservationist famously known as the ‘Elephant Whisperer’, died, some of the elephants he worked to save came to his family’s home in accordance with the way elephants usually mourn the death of one of their own.
LdBv TIL there are more tigers in the state of Texas than all of Asia
W7yBo TIL that in the D-Day landings of 1944, only about 14 percent of the force were infantry, 6 percent were tank crews, and the rest were "rear area functions," - Logistics, medical staff, etc.
6dmX TIL Canada has the longest coastline in the world at 125,567 miles (202,080km)
Jk1Q TIL In 1963, Donald Currey cut down a tree to retrieve his drill bit after it got stuck when he was trying to core it to study climate effects. After studying the core of the tree, he found that he’d just cut down the oldest tree (at least 4862 years old) found to date.