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TIL The largest hula hoop ever hula hooped was 17ft wide andhula hooped by Getti Kehayova

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J1NkB TIL Mel Brooks was a combat engineer at the Battle of the Bulge. When the Nazis played their propaganda over loudspeakers, he responded by setting up his own sound system and playing music by Jewish singer Al Jolson.
v1gy7 TIL that Walt Disney originally wanted to call his most famous creation Mortimer, but his wife convinced him to change the name to Mickey.
v1GgB TIL Typhoid Mary is the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook.
XQE TIL that the highest scoring Soccer game was 149-0 In which, in protest, Stade Olympique de L'Emyrne started to score on themselves in protest of a few bad calls the referee made.
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