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TIL Zach Galifianakis once went to a KKK rally for an interview and asked the grand wizard if he’d seen Big Momma’s House 3, it was the “highlight of my career” he stated

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6EQEm TIL: During the beginning of the cold war the USSR penetrated the Los Alamos nuclear lab in USA and stole sensitive info. At the end of the cold war China penetrated the same lab and stole info of the most advanced miniaturized US nuke and replicated it and improved it.
VML94 TIL a town bully who was a pedohile, a thief, a stalker, an intimidator & and attempted murdered, always escaped the law. Then one day, he was shot dead in broad daylight. There were over 40 witnesses but nobody would identify the killer because they felt he got what he deserved.
0d6nN TIL in 1928, the co-founder of Universal Pictures, Carl Laemmle Sr. made his son, Carl Jr., the studio head as a 21st birthday gift. Universal already had a reputation then for nepotism - 70 of Carl Sr.'s relatives were once on the payroll. This led to their downfall as owners of the studio in 1936
6E4ww TIL that humor is one of four core defense mechanisms classified as "mature." The three others are sublimation, altruism, and suppression. For this reason, individuals who have endured significant trauma often have a keen sense of a humor. In other words, the trauma adds a little spice.
gMA1D TIL in 2013, there was a train crash in Australia caused by millipedes. There were so many of them on the tracks that a train pulling into a station ended up losing friction from squishing so many of them and crashed into another train.