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TIL that James Michael Tyler initially got the part of Gunther in Friends because he knew how to work a coffee machine and would look authentic when working in the background.

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PYVvZ TIL when Ray Davies of The Kinks took his first driving test, he ran a woman over. When he got out to help her, he forgot to put the handbrake on and the car rolled over her shopping.
XQZj TIL dogs have “incomplete cheeks,” which allow them to open their mouths wide but, conversely, means they can’t create suction like humans, resulting in scooping water backwards with their tongues.
OoP5g TiL about the December 14th 1944 Palawan massacre where Japanese imperial soldiers lit American soldiers on fire by sounding an air raid siren to lead them to a trench filled with gasoline instead of an air raid shelter. Of the 150 American POWs only 11 survived and escaped to American lines.
wLJVW TIL Wilson's storm petrels, named after the father of American ornithology Alexander Wilson, don’t actually walk on water, but they aim themselves into the wind, hover over an area, and slowly advance while touching their feet to the water’s surface like a bouncing dance as they search for food.
VGRG TIL that an allergy to Brazilian nuts is the only allergy that can be sexually transmitted through sperm [NSFW]