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TIL The Version of Holding Out For A Hero used in the credits of Shrek 2 is sung by Imogen Heap

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ppLp TIL of Michael Richards, who died in his art studio on 9/11, floor 92 WTC North, whose art focused on planes; including sculptures of airplanes piercing his own body.
0wyZy TIL The Ranch at Death Valley is known for being the location of the highest temperature recorded on Earth at 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) on July 10, 1913
Oo0DY TIL there is no antivenom for a blue-ringed octopus bite. However, if you can get a ventilator to breathe for you for 15 hours, you survive with no side effects.
Y7QA TIL that even though Lenin believed certain sexual practices to be immoral and bourgeois, the soviet union allowed them anyways because they didn’t believe the government had to right to prevent them.
w7OM TIL that 70 percent of all Indian motel owners – or a third of all motel owners in America – are named Patel