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TIL “Licensed to Ill” by the Beastie Boys was originally going to be named “Don’t be a Fagot” but Columbia wouldn’t allow it

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grV14 TIL that British mathematician Lord Kelvin was so confident in his abilities, he once is said to have sent a servant to find out who was the second-highest scoring student in a mathematical competition at the University of Cambridge. The servant returned and replied "You were, sir".
pYBoN TIL your belly button depth isn’t determined by the cut at birth, but just randomly how your stump heals.
75w7 TIL Chris Farley was supposed to be the voice of Shrek and had finished recording almost all of his lines when he died, and he was replaced with Mike Myers. Later, Myers had to re-record all of his lines when he decided to give Shrek a Scottish accent.
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