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TIL Chris Columbus was originally set to direct National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation but dropped out after difficult meetings with star Chevy Chase. Instead Columbus made Home Alone; the highest grossing Christmas film of all time. (vulture.com)

submitted by jaywinston

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TIL cat bites can be incredibly dangerous. Due to the fact that a cat's teeth are sharp and narrow, the resulting wound can heal over easily - resulting in bacteria trapped beneath the skin. (vcahospitals.com)

submitted by HolycommentMattman

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TIL, Frodo had the ring for 17 years before going on his quest instead of the handful of days the movie shows. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted by nawab6

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TIL Donald Glover was voted "Most Likely to Write for The Simpsons" in high school. In his last year of college, it was a spec script he wrote for The Simpsons that started his career as a writer for 30 Rock. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted by kangerluswag

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TIL by eating herbivores with seeds in their stomachs and then leaving scat across a large range, cougars are able to plant around 94,000 plants a year. (atlasobscura.com)

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TIL the first movie made about the sinking of the Titanic was released only 29 days after the event. The lead actress was an actual survivor, and suffered a mental breakdown after filming. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted by Jon-Osterman6

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TIL that in 2004 a $300,000 diamond was lost in an F1 crash. The diamond was attached to the car to promote Ocean's 12 and was never recovered after the crash (thisisf1.com)

submitted by Myoplasmic

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TIL Germany’s World War II invasion of France was aided by crystal meth. New research says tablets of the stimulant enabled German troops to stay awake for three days and three nights and push through the Ardennes mountains. (theguardian.com)

submitted by malzp

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TIL that a Johns Hopkins professor procured 34 gallons of whiskey during prohibition for his research. He observed that subjects got better at throwing darts as they got drunker. (hub.jhu.edu)

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TIL that Harrison Ford received $10,000 for his role in A New Hope and $20,000,000 for his role in The Force Awakens (moneynation.com)

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TIL that whenever you move your eyes quickly from one point to another point, there is a disconnect between your eyes and brain, so your perception of time stretches backwards slightly. This is why, when you first look at a clock, it appears to take longer than a second to move (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL McDonald's tried to sue a man legally named Ronald McDonald for running his family restaurant by the same name in 1956. The real Ronald won. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted by PolymorphicWolf

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TIL your 2016 calendar is reusable in 2044, 2072, and 2112. In 2017, you can re-use calendars from these years: 2006, 1995, 1989, 1978, 1967, 1961, 1950, 1939, 1933, and 1922. (whencanireusethiscalendar.com)

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TIL that the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (now extinct) was male. It's song was recorded in 1987. It was recorded singing a mating call, to a female that would never come. It died in 1987 as well. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL in a football match between Chelsea and Charlton Athletic, the fog was so thick that Charlton keeper was unaware that the match has been stopped by the referee due to poor visibility, assuming play was in Chelsea's half. It was 15 minutes before the police told him the game has been abandoned. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL The great-grandson of Oscar Meyer gave away his fortune at 26 and has dedicated his life to helping the poor. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted by SenorKerry

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TIL that asthma inhalers containing ozone damaging CFCs were banned in 2008 in spite of their small environmental impact. Drug companies have greatly benefited from the ban because they can change more for HFA inhalers that are still patented. The drug has not changed, only the delivery mechanism. (reuters.com)

submitted by LinkDude80

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TIL Dr. Seuss was confronted by a feminist who claimed there were no strong female roles in his books. He remarked that most of his characters are animals, and if she could identify their sex, he would remember her in his will. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that Harry Potter was the most banned book in the US for 2001 and 2002, for the reasons of being "anti-family, occult/Satanism, religious viewpoint, violence". (ala.org)

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TIL the United States of America has a mystery that one writer calls "the biggest animal cold case in the nation's history": cattle/animal mutilations. In Kansas, for example, cattle were found with "ears, tongues, genitals and udders all neatly removed. Often, the scene was bloodless and trackless" (kansasagland.com)

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TIL that in 1966 a 26yr old man successfully fasted for 382 days and lost 276lbs (menshealth.com)

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TIL Stephen Wolfram, creator of WolframAlpha, has kept every keystroke he has typed and every email for roughly the past 20 years in the hopes that he will be able to create an artificial intelligent program that will automatically respond to his emails. (youtu.be)

submitted by Cornstar23

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TIL that Christmas along with the Christmas tree and many Christmas traditions were not originally related to Christianity but rather adopted from Yule and Saturnalia by the churches (history.com)

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TIL Halo 3 almost had a "Cheney Mania" announcement/medal for killing your own teammates (youtube.com)

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TIL That the French philosopher and mathematician Descartes was hired as a tutor by the Queen of Sweden, who insisted on philosophy lessons at 5 in the morning. Within a year of walking through the Swedish cold every morning, Descartes caught pneumonia and died. (biography.com)

submitted by White___Velvet

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