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TIL: Guy Fieri, before Food Network fame, used to be the spokesman for Flowmaster

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D1lEp TIL of the sea pangolin, a deep-sea snail that lives in hydrothermal vents 1.5 miles underwater with crushing pressures and temperatures up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit. To survive, it has an outer armoured shell made of iron sulfide - the only known extant animal to have this property.
GYRx1 TIL that the 2002 Scooby-Doo movie featured allusions to popular fan theories of the cartoon, such as Shaggy being high, Velma being lesbian and Fred and Daphne having hidden sex. The scenes were all cut to give the movie a PG-rating
OGZQa TIL Tsugumi Ohba, the writer of Death Note and Bakuman, admitted they never thought they would become a manga author, expecting Weekly Shonen Jump to pass on Death Note.
pY1Kb TIL that Charles Bukowski’s father was frequently abusive, both physically and mentally. He later told an interviewer that his father beat him with a razor strop three times a week from the ages of 6 to 11 years. He says that it helped his writing, as he came to understand undeserved pain.
wowEJ TIL that Francis Ford Coppola made more money making wine than he did making movies.