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TIL - At the age of 15, Jim Carrey and his family were so poor that they were all living out of a van, with Jim having to quit school and become a janitor to help support them.

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8aVkb TIL alchemists considered Mercury as a magical substance that a Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang took it as the elixir of immorality which resulted in him dying at the age of 49 and even he was buried in an underground mausoleum full of mercury thinking it's going to help him rule in the afterlife
4XlR6 TIL about the experimental youth soccer team “Phoenix” that was comprised in 2015 of kids that had no or very little sporting talents. Initially, the team was losing by 20:1. Despite this, two years later, the team became the city's futsal champion. This year they won the Ukrainian Cup.
KYDnQ TIL that Australia is so proud of the Hills Hoist rotary clothesline that it is an offical ‘National Treasure’, has an expat rugby team in London named after it and featured prominently in the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
9Y8Zp TIL of an apocalyptic town in Pennsylvania that had to be condemned and evacuated to a near ghost-town because of an underground coal mine fire accidentally lit in 1962. The underground fire still burns to this day, and could burn for another 250 years.
XEpKX TIL actor Joaquin Phoenix got into a traffic accident which flipped over his car, but was rescued by a random passerby who first calmly snatched away Phoenix's cigarette lighter right before it lit up the leaking gas tank. The passerby was Werner Herzog.