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TIL 20 years ago, Chris Evans got his first big break in Hollywood by starring in Not Another Teen Movie, in which he wore a whipped cream bikini and stuck a banana up his butt

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pmnZ TIL in 1738 Jaques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck that could flap its wings,drink water,digest grain and even defecate. The duck had over 400 moving parts in each wing alone. Vaucanson is credited as having invented the world’s first flexible rubber tube while building the duck’s intestines
R5Zbl TIL of the ir. D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station, the largest still operational steam-powered pumping station in the world.
b9Pvp TIL In 1982, Dolph Lundgren graduated with a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney
O9R1 TIL: Four years after it was released, an Arizona DJ played UB40’s “Red Red Wine” as part of a feature on songs that should have been hits. Listeners started requesting it and within weeks it was the national #1 single
6KbQ TIL The first child to own a stuffed Paddington Bear, was Jeremy Clarkson.