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TIL Vaselina is the Mexican title for the movie Grease

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e06QE TIL: The Belly Button Biodiversity Project. Scientists examined the genetic makeup of the bacterial found in the bellybuttons of 60 volunteers. One individual, who hadn't washed in several years, hosted 2 species of extremophile bacteria that typically thrive in ice caps and thermal vents.
4nyR TIL Stephen Fry claims the UK record for saying ‘fuck’ on television most times in one live broadcast.
78kWO TIL Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright was fired from the band after making "The Wall". For the following tour he was hired as a session musician and was the only "member" of the band to make a profit for the tour as he was exempt from the crippling cost of the extravagant stage production.
m1aJy TIL in 1940, when Paramount asked Fleischer Studios to created a Superman cartoon, Fleischer thought it would be too hard to make. In an attempt to avoid making the cartoon, they quoted four times the cost of an average cartoon for the budget ($100k). To their shock, Paramount agreed to the budget.
ZpjK4 TIL the company that produced WWII gas chamber poison and melted Jewish gold teeth also produced the anti-graffiti finish on the Jewish memorial in Berlin