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TIL in America, fake wrestling is called “pro wrestling” and real wrestling is called “amateur wrestling”

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nex0B TIL a man endured 440 days drifting across the Pacific Ocean until he was found in the Marshall Islands in 2013, emaciated and wearing only his underpants, having swum ashore.
Yjdv TIL that in “Hey Ya!”, André 3000 played all eight members of the band The Love Below, and he performed the song 23 times during the course of filming
DQ97J TIL that Matt Karedas (Samurai Cop) was served time for stealing a Rembrandt painting and had no idea about the movie's cult status.
6Ek7l TIL many farmers are cracking their JD tractors with premium pirated software made by eastern europeans due to how expensive repairing their machines is.
9YDvB TIL the game developer HAL Laboratory got its name because "each letter put them one step ahead of IBM"