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TIL: Kris Straub, the author of Candle Cove, confirmed that his YouTube project "Local 58" was the same channel the show was aired on.

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4Elo TIL the man who supervised the construction of the CTV Building, which collapsed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, faked his engineering degree. 115 people died, over half the total earthquake deaths. Gerald Shirtcliff had stolen the identity of a retired engineer based in the UK, William Fisher.
78MpM TIL: Matt LeBlanc was in the offical music video for Bob Seger's Night Moves.
AN91B TIL in 590 the city of Rome was experiencing such a severe food shortage and refugee crisis, that Pope Gregory had the church operate as a relief organization. This included having goods from church-owned farmland being given away as alms and Gregory himself cooking meals to give to the needy.
EQjX TIL There is an auction to win a trip to space accompanied by Leonardo DiCaprio
7pOX TIL that people are ticklish where we are must vulnerable to attack (behind the knees, armpits, etc.) Our response to being tickled trains us to quickly block those locations as if in a defensive fight.