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TIL John Belushi forgot to bring any form of ID to his own wedding. He called a judge, asked him if he watched SNL, and got him to sign an affadavit for the wedding license.

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EgVOP Today I learned that in 2010, Bahrain played against a fake team made up of "unidentified players" who allegedly pretend they are Togo National Team. Bahrain won the game 3-0.
ADGeg TIL many islands are connected to the internet by just one undersea cable. Most of these cables aren't buried, they just lay on the bottom of the ocean. In 2019, the entire Island of Tonga had no internet for 13 days due to their cable accidentally getting cut by an oil tanker.
WkM4X TIL racecar driver Joie Chitwood acted as a car safety consultant, intentionally crashing more than 3,000 vehicles for subsequent investigation. Highways are safer today because of these tests.
LkR9P TIL: In the 16th century, the Pope declared the Capybara a fish, and it was allowed to be eaten during Lent.
o5RE TIL after the 2007 movie “The Man From Earth” was illegally shared via BitTorrent, the producer publicly thanked the file sharers because it “lifted the profile of the film far beyond the financier’s expectations.”